Promtail📜
Overview📜
Promtail is an agent which reads log files and sends streams of log data to the centralised Loki instances along with a set of labels.
Big Bang Touch Points📜
Architecture:📜
Storage📜
Promtail does not persist data, and instead reads log files and streams the data to a log aggregation system.
Istio Configuration📜
Istio is disabled in the promtail chart by default and can be enabled by setting the following values in the bigbang chart:
istio:
enabled: true
These values get passed into the promtail chart here.
High Availability📜
By default, Promtail runs as a daemonset with a pod on each node.
Single Sign on (SSO)📜
None. This service doesn’t have a web interface.
Licensing📜
Promtail utilizes an AGPLv3 License for it’s code and binaries.
Last update:
2023-04-21 by Ryan Thompson