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Started using Grafana Loki recently, so far it seems very good at consuming all the various log formats you might encounter and you can parse them into metrics etc as needed using regular expressions. Much nicer than dumping everything on a central syslog. My only "gripe" is the high learning curve compared to say elk stack.

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Does it really have a higher learning curve than running ELK? ELK is a nightmare to manage at any kind of scale in my experience.

I guess I have been looking at Loki and is the issue in configuration or operation? If it’s harder to operate than ELK I’m not going to touch it though.

I've only started to mess around with Loki but there is no way that it's more complex than a scaled up ELK stack.

To be more clear, installing it and getting logs into the system is a piece of cake, getting useful information beyond the basics is more complicated and in my experience not as straight forward as elk stack. Kind of the exact opposite of elk in fact

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