What you'll learn
- A brief introduction to Loki and how it is different from other logging solutions
- Benefits of using Grafana Cloud Logs
- Challenges with logging as organizations scale and the volume of logs explodes
- How Grafana Cloud Logs enables organizations to securely make logs available to any team members who need them
- Features available in Grafana Cloud Logs and how to get access
Scalable Logging with Grafana Loki
The move to cloud native and microservice-based architectures has led to an explosion in the volume of logs. As valuable as they are, we often hear from enterprise customers that existing logging solutions become prohibitively expensive as businesses scale, and don’t natively integrate with metrics.
We started the open source Loki project to solve these problems, and we’ve seen it skyrocket in popularity since its launch in 2018. Loki only indexes the metadata surrounding the logs, not the log lines themselves, making it a fast, cost-effective, and highly scalable solution. By using the same service discovery as Prometheus, Loki can guarantee your logs have consistent labels with your metrics — which allows you to seamlessly switch between metrics and logs, preserving context and saving time.
Grafana Cloud Logs offers users looking for a turnkey solution for hosting logs using Grafana Loki, offered as a SaaS solution from Grafana Labs.