= Promtail =

'''Promtail''' is a log aggregation project to compliment [[Prometheus]] and part of the [[Grafana]] project.

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== Installation ==

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== Configuration ==

The basic configuration is:

{{{
server:
  http_listen_address = 0.0.0.0
  http_listen_port: 9080

positions:
  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml

clients:
  -url: http://loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push

scrape_configs:
  <something>
}}}

To scrape [[Syslogd]], try:

{{{
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: syslog
    syslog:
      listen_address: 0.0.0.0:601
      idle_timeout: 60s
      label_structured_data: yes
      labels:
        job: "syslog"
  relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: ["__syslog_message_hostname"]
      target_label: "host"
}}}

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== See also ==

[[https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/|Promtail Documentation]]



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