Grafana Cloud Loki

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Getting Started

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

Then, under the “GRAFANA CLOUD” title, select your Grafana Stuck, browser to the “Loki” card and click “Send Logs”

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

odigos ui

Using Kubernetes manifests

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

kubectl apply -f grafanacloudloki.yaml