Getting Started with Helm Charts (Logging using Loki Stack)
This document explains how to get started with log aggregation for Scalar products on Kubernetes using Grafana Loki (with Promtail).
We assume that you have already read the getting-started with monitoring for Scalar products and installed kube-prometheus-stack.
What we create
We will deploy the following components on a Kubernetes cluster as follows.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| +------------------------------------+ |
| | loki-stack | |
| | | +-----------------+ |
| | +--------------+ +--------------+ | <-----------------(Log)-------------- | Scalar Products | |
| | | Loki | | Promtail | | | | |
| | +--------------+ +--------------+ | | +-----------+ | |
| +------------------------------------+ | | ScalarDB | | |
| | +-----------+ | |
| +------------------------------------------------------+ | | |
| | kube-prometheus-stack | | +-----------+ | |
| | | | | ScalarDL | | |
| | +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | -----(Monitor)----> | +-----------+ | |
| | | Prometheus | | Alertmanager | | Grafana | | +-----------------+ |
| | +-------+------+ +------+-------+ +------+-------+ | |
| | | | | | |
| | +----------------+-----------------+ | |
| | | | |
| +--------------------------+---------------------------+ |
| | |
| | Kubernetes |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| <- expose to localhost (127.0.0.1) or use load balancer etc to access
|
(Access Dashboard through HTTP)
|
+----+----+
| Browser |
+---------+
Step 1. Prepare a custom values file
- Get the sample file scalar-loki-stack-custom-values.yaml for the
loki-stack
helm chart.
Step 2. Deploy loki-stack
-
Add the
grafana
helm repository.helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
-
Deploy the
loki-stack
helm chart.helm install scalar-logging-loki grafana/loki-stack -n monitoring -f scalar-loki-stack-custom-values.yaml
Step 3. Add a Loki data source in the Grafana configuration
-
Add a configuration of the Loki data source in the
scalar-prometheus-custom-values.yaml
file.grafana:
additionalDataSources:
- name: Loki
type: loki
uid: loki
url: http://scalar-logging-loki:3100/
access: proxy
editable: false
isDefault: false -
Apply the configuration (upgrade the deployment of
kube-prometheus-stack
).helm upgrade scalar-monitoring prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring -f scalar-prometheus-custom-values.yaml