In 2020, Grafana Loki saw significant advancements, marked by increased adoption, performance enhancements, and the release of Loki 2.0, which introduced new query language features for label extraction at query time. The year began with the release of Loki 1.3.0, featuring a Query Frontend for sharding queries, which improved parallel execution and security measures. Subsequent updates brought optimizations such as regex simplifications, significant performance boosts, and the introduction of a new index option, boltdb-shipper, which simplified deployments by eliminating the need for a separate index store. Loki 1.6.0 further improved memory allocation and query processing, while the release of Loki 2.0 removed the external index and added powerful filtering capabilities, direct alert generation, and new visualization methods. The community played a crucial role in these developments, contributing over 130 PRs for the 1.4.0 release alone, and Grafana Labs shifted Loki OSS support to community.grafana.com to better address popular topics and enhance documentation. Looking ahead, the team is testing a write-ahead log for increased durability and exploring custom retention and log handling to improve performance further, with Loki 2.1 already incorporating key fixes and enhancements.