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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Visualizing Loki log data with Explore

Go to Explore and confirm that Loki is set as your data source. Welcome to Loki! Things may look a bit different from what you may remember from using Explore with other data sources. On the far right of Kick start your query, click on Builder mode. Let’s take a quick tour of some of Loki’s UI features:

Figure 13.2 – Loki data source in Explore

Figure 13.2 – Loki data source in Explore

The following features are highlighted in the preceding figure:

  1. Split: Splits the window into two queries that are side by side. For example, you can put logs on one side and metrics on the other.
  2. Add to dashboard: Captures your current query and creates a panel on a dashboard.
  3. Time frame selection. Selects the time period for the query.
  4. Run query: Use the dropdown to set a continuous refresh rate for the query.
  5. Live: This continuously displays the last few loglines matching the query. The button switches to a pause or stop selector...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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