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Loki is a component, not the entire stack #146

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Compared to other log aggregation systems, Loki:
- is an especially good fit for storing [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) Pod logs. Metadata such as Pod labels is automatically scraped and indexed.
- has native support in Grafana (already in the nightly builds, will be included in Grafana 6.0).

Loki consists of 3 components:
A Loki-based logging stack consists of 3 components:

- `loki` is the main server, responsible for storing logs and processing queries.
- `promtail` is the agent, responsible for gathering logs and sending them to loki.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ Your feedback is always welcome.

[kccna18-event]: https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrXC/on-the-oss-path-to-full-observability-with-grafana-david-kaltschmidt-grafana-labs
[kccna18-slides]: https://speakerdeck.com/davkal/on-the-path-to-full-observability-with-oss-and-launch-of-loki
[kccna18-video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpJRG_ijKe0
[kccna18-video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpJRG_ijKe0