Loki tutorial: How to send logs from EKS with Promtail to get full visibility in Grafana
Blog post from Grafana Labs
The tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on setting up Promtail on Amazon EKS to achieve centralized log visibility using Loki and Grafana. It covers the installation and configuration of necessary tools like eksctl, AWS CLI, kubectl, and a Grafana instance with a Loki data source. The process entails creating a Kubernetes cluster on EKS, deploying Promtail as a DaemonSet for log collection, and ensuring service discovery compatibility with Prometheus. Users are guided through configuring log forwarding to Loki, including systemd logs and Kubernetes events, and utilizing Helm for deployment tasks. The tutorial emphasizes real-time log exploration in Grafana, highlighting the seamless integration of metrics and logs for efficient troubleshooting and monitoring within Kubernetes environments.