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Grafana Loki

Cheap log aggregation, inspired by Prometheus.

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Log system that indexes only labels instead of full text, which lowers cost and pairs with Grafana and Prometheus.

When to use

To centralize application and container logs at low cost, alongside Grafana.

When to avoid

For advanced full-text search in logs; a search engine is more suitable.

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