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VictoriaLogs Quick Start
It is recommended to read README and Key Concepts before you start working with VictoriaLogs.
How to install and run VictoriaLogs
There are the following options exist:
Docker image
You can run VictoriaLogs in a Docker container. It is the easiest way to start using VictoriaLogs. Here is the command to run VictoriaLogs in a Docker container:
docker run --rm -it -p 9428:9428 -v ./victoria-logs-data:/victoria-logs-data \
docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-logs:heads-public-single-node-0-ga638f5e2b
Helm charts
You can run VictoriaLogs in Kubernetes environment with helm-charts.
Building from source code
Follow the following steps in order to build VictoriaLogs from source code:
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Checkout VictoriaLogs source code. It is located in the VictoriaMetrics repository:
git clone https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics cd VictoriaMetrics -
Build VictoriaLogs. The build command requires Go 1.20.
make victoria-logs -
Run the built binary:
bin/victoria-logs
VictoriaLogs is ready for data ingestion
and querying at the TCP port 9428 now!
It has no any external dependencies, so it may run in various environments without additional setup and configuration.
VictoriaLogs automatically adapts to the available CPU and RAM resources. It also automatically setups and creates
the needed indexes during data ingestion.
How to configure VictoriaLogs
It is possible to change the TCP port via -httpListenAddr command-line flag. For example, the following command
starts VictoriaLogs, which accepts incoming requests at port 9200 (aka ElasticSearch HTTP API port):
/path/to/victoria-logs -httpListenAddr=:9200
VictoriaLogs stores the ingested data to the victoria-logs-data directory by default. The directory can be changed
via -storageDataPath command-line flag. See these docs for details.
By default VictoriaLogs stores log entries with timestamps
in the time range [now-7d, now], while dropping logs outside the given time range.
E.g. it uses the retention of 7 days. Read these docs on how to control the retention
for the ingested logs.
It is recommended setting up monitoring of VictoriaLogs according to these docs.
How to send logs to VictoriaLogs
You can setup data ingestion for VictoriaLogs via the following ways:
- Configure one of the supported log collectors to send logs to VictoriaLogs.
- Configure your own log collector to send logs to VictoriaLogs via supported log ingestion protocols.
Here are a demos for running popular supported log collectors in docker with VictoriaLogs:
And you can use helm chart as demo for running fluentbit in kubernetes with VictoriaLogs:
How to query logs in VictoriaLogs
You can query logs with LogsQL using the following options:
- VMUI - a web-based UI for querying logs.
- Command-line interface.
See more details in these docs.