How I fell in love with logs thanks to Grafana Loki

Dave Schmid, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, shares his newfound appreciation for logs, particularly through the use of Grafana Loki, as he resolved Wi-Fi issues in his home network. Initially a metrics enthusiast, Schmid transitioned to logging when metrics alone couldn't solve his connectivity challenges. He recounts how Loki, alongside Prometheus and Kubernetes, provided a robust solution for aggregating and exploring logs. By deploying Loki and its components like Promtail and syslog-ng, he successfully monitored his network devices and transformed logs into metrics using LogQL queries, ultimately identifying the root cause of his network problems. Schmid's experience underscores the ease of connecting open-source solutions to address technical issues and is detailed in his "Loki Syslog AIO" project, available on GitHub for others to replicate.