How to install Loki on EndeavourOS

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to install Loki on EndeavourOS.

Prerequisites

• An EndeavourOS latest installed and updated system.
• A user account with administrative privileges (sudo).

Step 1: Install Loki

1. Open your terminal and update your system's package repository by running the following command:

   sudo pacman -Syu
   

2. Install Loki by running the following command:

   sudo pacman -S loki
   

Step 2: Configure Loki

1. Create a configuration file for Loki by running the following command:

   sudo nano /etc/loki/local-config.yaml
   

   and paste the following configuration there:

   server:
     http_listen_port: 3100
     grpc_listen_port: 9095
   
   auth_enabled: false
   
   ingester:
     lifecycler:
       address: 127.0.0.1
       ring:
         kvstore:
           store: inmemory
         replication_factor: 1
       final_sleep: 0s
     chunk_idle_period: 5m
     chunk_retain_period: 30s
   
   schema_config:
     configs:
       - from: 2021-01-01
         store: boltdb
         object_store: filesystem
         schema: v11
         index:
           prefix: index_
           period: 24h
   
   storage_config:
     boltdb:
       directory: /var/lib/loki/index
   
   limits_config:
     enforce_metric_name: false
     reject_old_samples: true
     reject_old_samples_max_age: 168h
   
   chunk_store_config:
     max_look_back_period: 0s
   
   table_manager:
     retention_deletes_enabled: false
     retention_period: 0s
   

2. Save and exit the file.

Step 3: Run Loki

1. Run the following command to start Loki:

   sudo systemctl start loki
   

2. Check the status of Loki by running the following command:

   sudo systemctl status loki
   

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure Loki on EndeavourOS. Now that Loki is up and running, you can start sending logs to it and using its powerful querying and alerting features.

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