Loki: Promtail support for journalctl / systemd and syslog

[tomwilkie]

[geekodour]

@gouthamve is #26 a PR for this?

but I think a different package for promtail ( #52 ) will be a good idea before that. are there any other discussions on a package for promtail other than #52 ?

[pstadler]

Came here to vote for adding syslog(+tls) support. This should work out of the box with logspout (see #82), but also many *NIX-style systems.

As an example, I'm sending a bunch of logs from different systems to Papertrail using syslog:

• Kubernetes container logs (via logspout)
• EdgeRouter logs
• FreeNAS system logs
• Docker logs on FreeNAS (via logspout)

Please note that the Papertrail UI is brilliant for streaming logs - couldn't find a way to stream logs on the Grafana UI yet, is there something planned?

[SvenDowideit]

https://github.com/hikhvar/journaldtail works for my testing.

[daixiang0]

@davkal @gouthamve @slim-bean hi, is there any plan about this?

[RRadziejewski]

I am also wondering about this can we get such a feature?

[slim-bean]

It's good to see people adding thumbs up to the first comment, this helps us understand community interest in this, and it looks like there is quite a bit :)

We are still working diligently to get loki/promtail out of alpha and into a beta stage and filling some much needed holes, so there isn't a plan for this work just yet, but it sounds like we should be looking into it.

Keep adding those thumbs up to the original comment, it helps us prioritize a lot!

[genebean]

Adding this would remove any need for me to use Fluentd on Linux so I am a big 👍

[billimek]

This is the last thing preventing me from dumping elasticsearch - would love to see this implemented!

[slim-bean]

Hey @billimek, journalctl is implemented but we are sorting out the best way to package promtail with this support, is journal support what you are looking for?

[wagdav]

We're using the systemd journal scraper in production for a couple of weeks now and we are very happy with it. We are building promtail from source and used this configuration example to set it up.

[slim-bean]

935 will handle the syslog part of this, journald support was recently added, closing