Senior Principal Solutions Engineer Ward Bekker talks about getting started with Grafana Loki: what Loki is, why you need log aggregation, and how it fits into the rest of the Grafana stack. He is joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven to tell you everything you need to know about Loki.

00:00:00 Introductions
00:03:34 What is a log? How is it different from a metric?
00:12:29 Why is it called Loki?
00:14:58 What is Grafana Loki?
00:20:50 How is Loki different from alternatives?
00:27:20 How does Loki work?
00:33:39 Cost, performance, scalability
00:42:14 Q - What to use for object storage with Loki
00:44:13 Q - Which Helm chart to use for Loki
00:48:56 Q - How do you do alerting with Loki?
00:52:29 Q - What is the backend component in the Loki Helm chart?
00:53:33 Loki dashboard on Grafana Play
00:56:36 5-minute summary

Contact Nicole:
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole
GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com

Contact Paul:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/javaducky
Site: https://javaducky.com/

Contact Ward:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wardbekker/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wardbekker

Learn more about Grafana Labs:
Website: https://grafana.com
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana