Loki has reached its 1.0.0 General Availability release, marking its transition from beta and signifying its readiness for stable production use. Over the past year, the project has seen significant development, with contributions from over 137 contributors and more than 1,000 updates. Loki has proven its reliability by handling substantial data volumes internally within Grafana Cloud, prompting its availability for customer use. The release underscores a commitment to maintaining API and feature stability while minimizing breaking changes, and it includes features like loki-canary for early log detection and enhancements for Docker and systemd logging. The platform's benefits are exemplified by a case study on Paytm Insider, which achieved substantial cost savings using Loki.