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Learn Grafana 7.0

You're reading from  Learn Grafana 7.0

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826581
Pages 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
Profile icon Eric Salituro

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface Getting Started with Grafana
Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana A Tour of the Grafana Interface An Introduction to the Graph Panel Real-World Grafana
Connecting Grafana to a Data Source Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel Visualization Panels in Grafana Creating Your First Dashboard Working with Advanced Dashboard Features Grafana Alerting Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki Managing Grafana
Organizing Dashboards Managing Permissions for Users and Teams Authentication with External Services Cloud Monitoring Other Books You May Enjoy

Visualizing Loki log data with Explore

Go to Explore and make sure Loki is set as the data source.

Welcome to Explore! Things look quite a bit different from what you may remember from using Explore with other data sources. Let's take a quick tour of some of the basic UI features:

The features highlighted in the preceding screenshot are as follows:

  1. Log labels/Metrics Explorer: This is where you can use the Log labels or Metrics Explorer to access log labels as they are generated or parsed from your logs. Logs can also be aggregated into metrics. Loki is architected somewhat differently than Elasticsearch in that it doesn't create a database of indexed log files. Rather, it simply associates logs with text labels, similar to metrics labels in Prometheus.
  2. Query field: You enter log stream queries here using the LogQL query language, which is very similar to PromQL for Prometheus. Selections made...
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