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promtail

An agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud

  • Service
  • Server
  • System
  • NETWORK
  • Launchable
  • Background service
official+codex · reviewed · May 28, 2026 description in en

Description

Collect local log files and ship them to Loki or Grafana Cloud for centralized search, alerting, and troubleshooting. It helps teams correlate logs from many systems in one observability backend.

Logs often contain private data, tokens, hostnames, and user activity. Configure labels, redaction, retention, and destinations before forwarding production logs.

How to run

promtail.service

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