VictoriaMetrics/deployment/docker/victorialogs/promtail
Andrii Chubatiuk dfcab4a47f
deployment/victorialogs: rename not executable compose files (#7124)
### Describe Your Changes

Renamed base compose files to prevent envs to be created from them

### Checklist

The following checks are **mandatory**:

- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
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loki deployment/victorialogs: rename not executable compose files (#7124) 2024-09-29 09:54:45 +02:00
compose-base.yml deployment/victorialogs: rename not executable compose files (#7124) 2024-09-29 09:54:45 +02:00
README.md victorialogs: marked fluentd support in roadmap, added syslog example (#7098) 2024-09-27 14:38:39 +02:00

Docker compose Promtail integration with VictoriaLogs

The folder contains the example of integration of Promtail agent with VictoriaLogs using protocols:

To spin-up environment cd to any of listed above directories run the following command:

docker compose up -d 

To shut down the docker-compose environment run the following command:

docker compose down
docker compose rm -f

The docker compose file contains the following components:

  • promtail - logs collection agent configured to collect and write data to victorialogs
  • victorialogs - logs database, receives data from promtail agent
  • victoriametrics - metrics database, which collects metrics from victorialogs and promtail for observability purposes

Querying the data

  • vmui - a web UI is accessible by http://localhost:9428/select/vmui
  • for querying the data via command-line please check these docs

Promtail agent configuration example can be found below:

Please, note that _stream_fields parameter must follow recommended best practices to achieve better performance.