This post documents the setup of a basic log observability stack using Grafana, Loki, and Alloy on Debian or Raspberry Pi OS. In this example we’re going to ingest logs from a local script that… Grafana Loki and Alloy configuration
Overview Grafana Alloy is a telemetry collector that replaces Grafana Promtail and Grafana Agent. It gathers logs, metrics, traces and profiles from systems and forwards them to other tools in the Grafana suite like Loki… Grafana Alloy – Installation
Background Grafana is an open-source platform that visualises metrics, logs, and traces from tools like Prometheus, Loki, and Alloy (formally called Promtail). Grafana alloys you to display dashboards by connecting to raw data. Grafana versions… Grafana – Updating
Overview Grafana Loki is a log aggregation system designed to work with both Prometheus and Grafana. It stores logs with minimal indexing by using only labels. This makes it fast, efficient and scalable. Loki supports… Grafana Loki – Installation
In any Linux system running chatty / verbose logging can grow its log files very quickly. Left unchecked, they have the potential to consume available filesystem space and disrupt normal operations A handy lightweight utility… Logrotate – Installation
systat is a bundle of several command-line utilities used for real-time Linux and Unix system performance monitoring. It provides the ability to analyse the usage of a computers sub-systems such as CPU, memory, disk, filesystem… systat – Installation and Overview
Purpose The purpose of this post is to document the installation of the docker application on a Debian based Linux distribution. Scope The scope is limited to just the installation process of the Docker application.… Docker – Installation
The System Activity Reporter (sar) is part of the Linux syststat package. This package contains various system performance monitoring utilities (iostat, mpstat, pidstat, tapestat, cifsiostat and sar). sar is useful because it not only shows… sar – System Activity Reporter
Purpose In this post we install Grafana on a Debian based system such as Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS. Scope The scope of this post is limited to the installation of Grafana on a Debian based… Grafana – Installation