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Installing Loki Locally

Release Binaries

Every release includes binaries for Loki which can be found on the Releases page.

Community openSUSE Linux packages

The community provides packages of Loki for openSUSE Linux. To install:

  1. Add the repository https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/logging/ to your system. For example, if you are using Leap 15.1, run sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/logging/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/security:logging.repo ; sudo zypper ref
  2. Install the Loki package with zypper in loki
  3. Enable the Loki and Promtail services:
  • systemd start loki && systemd enable loki
  • systemd start promtail && systemd enable promtail
  1. Modify the configuration files as needed: /etc/loki/promtail.yaml and /etc/loki/loki.yaml.

Manual Build

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.13 or later
  • Make
  • Docker (for updating protobuf files and yacc files)

Building

Clone Loki to $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki:

$ git clone https://github.com/grafana/loki $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki

Then change into that directory and run make loki:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki
$ make loki

# A file at ./cmd/loki/loki will be created and is the
# final built binary.