Company
Date Published
Author
Cyril Tovena
Word count
358
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Loki is a tool designed for searching logs within systems, particularly useful during incidents or development troubleshooting. While LogQL's line filters in Loki are typically case-sensitive, making it challenging to search logs with unknown capitalization, users can leverage regex line filters such as !~ and |~ with the RE2 syntax for case-insensitive searches. This method allows for efficient searches without performance drawbacks, as Loki optimizes these regex expressions to perform simple case-insensitive searches. To explore Loki's capabilities, users are encouraged to sign up for Grafana Cloud, which offers an accessible platform for managing metrics, logs, and dashboards with both free and paid options.