grafana-alloy-loki

alloy components (/config/config.alloy):

• container discovery w/ label filtering
• log capture (includes metadata like container_id and service_name)
• push log lines to loki over http (and mutual tls, for experimentation)

running with docker

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1. create the certs necessary for comms between alloy and nginx:

docker run --rm \
  --entrypoint sh \
  -v "$PWD/certs:/certs" \
  -v "$PWD/generate-certs.sh:/usr/local/bin/generate-certs.sh:ro" \
  alpine/openssl:latest -c /usr/local/bin/generate-certs.sh

2. start the stack:

docker compose up

missing

todo: add loki data source to grafana config