New in Grafana v6.3: Introducing Loki’s Log Row Context Viewer

Grafana v6.3 introduces a new log row context viewer for Loki's log exploration workflow in Grafana Explore, enhancing the debugging experience by allowing users to view surrounding log lines for better context. Loki, launched at KubeCon North America and inspired by Prometheus, is designed to optimize log storage, search, and aggregation while being easy to use with both microservices and monoliths. Its integration with Grafana Explore enables users to correlate metrics and logs, providing a more seamless debugging workflow by using filter expressions to narrow down log results. The new "Show Context" feature allows users to easily view the log lines surrounding a specific log line, which can be crucial for understanding errors, especially when on call. The context feature is available only for queries with search terms and is based on the same label set as the original query, requiring adjustments in query selectors if logs from more hosts are needed. This enhancement aims to improve the debugging workflow, and user feedback is encouraged.