Published on: 2025-06-07 18:38:57
Grafana Loki somewhat bills itself as "Prometheus for logs", and so it's unsurprising that it started with a data model much like Prometheus. Log lines in Loki are stored with some amount of metadata in labels, just as Prometheus metrics values have labels (including the name of the metric, which is sort of a label). Unfortunately Loki made implementation choices that caused this data model to be relatively catastrophic for system logs (either syslog logs or the systemd journal). Unlike Promethe
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