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Getting Started

grafanacloudloki
These instructions are for the Grafana Cloud managed Loki service. If you run a self hosted Loki instance, please follow the instructions on the Loki page.
You can use Grafana Cloud managed service as a backend for Odigos to store your logs, metrics, and traces. This page describes how to configure Odigos to use Grafana Cloud Loki as a logs backend. All the connection details can be found at grafana.com under My Account
Grafana labs website
Then, under the “GRAFANA CLOUD” title, select your Grafana Stuck, browser to the “Loki” card and click “Send Logs”
Loki managed service configuration
Loki Labels Read about setting grafana loki labels in the Loki page.

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Configuring Destination Fields

  • GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_ENDPOINT string : Endpoint. The endpoint of your Grafana Cloud Loki instance
    • This field is required
    • Example: https://logs-prod-{REGION/SHARD}.grafana.net/loki/api/v1/push
  • GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_USERNAME string : Username. You can find the loki username in the “Grafana Data Source settings” section as “User” value. The username is a number.
    • This field is required
    • Example: 1234567
  • GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_PASSWORD string : Password (Api Token). This field is refered to as “password” or “Grafana.com API Token” in the Grafana Cloud UI. You can manage tokens in your “Account Settings” page under the “SECURITY” section in the “Access Policies” page. Make sure your token scope includes logs:write scope
    • This field is required
    • Example: glc_eyJvIj...
  • GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_LABELS string[] : Labels. Use these OpenTelemetry resource attributes as Loki labels for each log record
    • This field is optional and defaults to ["k8s.container.name", "k8s.pod.name", "k8s.namespace.name"]

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Adding Destination to Odigos

There are two primary methods for configuring destinations in Odigos:
Using the UI
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Use the Odigos CLI to access the UI
odigos ui
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Click on Add Destination, select Grafana Cloud Loki and follow the on-screen instructions
Using Kubernetes manifests
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Save the YAML below to a file (e.g. grafanacloudloki.yaml)
apiVersion: odigos.io/v1alpha1
kind: Destination
metadata:
  name: grafanacloudloki-example
  namespace: odigos-system
spec:
  data:
    GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_ENDPOINT: <Endpoint>
    GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_USERNAME: <Username>
    # Note: The commented fields below are optional.
    # GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_LABELS: <Labels (default: ["k8s.container.name", "k8s.pod.name", "k8s.namespace.name"])>
  destinationName: grafanacloudloki
  secretRef:
    name: grafanacloudloki-secret
  signals:
  - LOGS
  type: grafanacloudloki

---

apiVersion: v1
data:
  GRAFANA_CLOUD_LOKI_PASSWORD: <Base64 Password (Api Token)>
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: grafanacloudloki-secret
  namespace: odigos-system
type: Opaque
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Apply the YAML using kubectl
kubectl apply -f grafanacloudloki.yaml