How to Install Loki on OpenBSD

Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Loki on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• A server running OpenBSD
• root access to the server
• Basic command line knowledge

Installation

Step 1: Update the System

Before installing any packages, it is important to update the system to ensure that all packages are up-to-date.

Run the following command in the terminal:

pkg_add -u

Step 2: Install Go

Loki is written in Go, so we need to install Go in order to be able to run it.

Run the following commands in the terminal:

pkg_add go

Step 3: Install Git

We need to install Git in order to download Loki from its repository.

Run the following command in the terminal:

pkg_add git

Step 4: Clone Loki Repository

We need to clone the Loki repository to our server.

Run the following command in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/grafana/loki.git

Step 5: Build Loki

Now we need to build Loki from source.

Run the following commands in the terminal:

cd loki/cmd/loki/
go build .

Step 6: Run Loki

We need to run Loki in order to start collecting logs.

Run the following command in the terminal:

./loki

You can now access Loki by opening your web browser and going to http://localhost:3100

Conclusion

You have now successfully installed and run Loki on OpenBSD. With Loki, you can now store and visualize your logs.

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