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Published inJun 2020
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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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Adding additional service logs

We'd like to get Loki to not only aggregate the system logs, but also the logs our services are generating. We could adjust the Promtail configuration to look for the logs wherever they're stored by Docker, but they could be tricky to find and the container may not sync them with the filesystem in a timely enough fashion.

Luckily, the folks at Grafana have provided a log driver for Docker that can deliver logs to Loki directly, thus bypassing Promtail entirely. It requires downloading a special Loki log driver and requires adjusting the docker-compose.yml file so that it includes the new logging information. To download and install the driver, run the following command:

          % docker plugin install grafana/loki-docker-driver:latest --alias loki
          --grant-all-permissions
        

To confirm the installation, run the following command:

% docker plugin ls

ID NAME DESCRIPTION ENABLED
692bec0b6ade loki...
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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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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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