Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log storage system from Grafana. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Loki on Kali Linux.
Before proceeding with the installation, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites in place:
Loki requires a few dependencies that you need to install first. Open a terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y docker.io docker-compose unzip
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
The first command updates the package list, the second command installs Docker, Docker Compose and unzip packages, and the third command adds your user account to the docker group.
Next, download the latest version of Loki from the Grafana website with the following command:
wget https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/latest/download/loki-linux-amd64.zip
Once the download is complete, extract the Loki binary to /usr/local/bin with the following command:
sudo unzip loki-linux-amd64.zip -d /usr/local/bin/
Create a configuration file for Loki with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/loki/local-config.yaml
Copy and paste the following configuration into the file:
auth_enabled: false
server:
http_listen_port: 3100
storage_config:
boltdb:
directory: /tmp/loki/index
filesystem:
directory: /tmp/loki/chunks
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
Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X and then Y.
Start Loki using Docker Compose with the following command:
docker-compose up -d
This command starts Loki in the background.
Check if Loki is running on your system by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3100/metrics. If everything is working correctly, you should see a page displaying various system metrics.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Loki on Kali Linux. You can now use it to store and query your logs.
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