Playing with the Loki Stack

Let’s get our hands dirty. The first step is to set up a cluster and install the Loki stack and a few other tools.

Get started with Loki

We made all the preparations, we deployed all the apps, and we applied all the configuration we need to give Loki a spin. Now we're ready to dive in.

We'll open Grafana first since that will be our user interface.

Note: The nip.io URL works with local addresses. That’s good news because that means it can work with Docker Desktop and Minikube. The bad news is that we might have told you otherwise in the previous chapters. We should have known that it's improved since the last time we experimented with it.

We're presented with the login screen. The username is "admin," but the default password is not a hard-coded value like "admin" or "123456." That’s a good thing in ...