In this Community Call, Senior Software Engineer Trevor Whitney talks to us all about Explore Logs for Grafana Loki, an open-source app for visualizing logs from Loki in Grafana without needing to learn and write LogQL queries. He is joined by Senior Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Jay Clifford.

Community Calls are monthly meetings that are open to everyone interested in the development of Loki. They are an opportunity for software engineers working on Loki to discuss new features as well as for open-source users of Loki to ask questions. To participate in the next Community Call, subscribe to the calendar here: https://gra.fan/lokicccal

HELPFUL LINKS:
Loki Community Call Agenda: https://gra.fan/lokicc
Loki GitHub repo: https://gra.fan/lokirepo
Loki docs: https://gra.fan/lokidocs
(docs) Explore Logs: https://gra.fan/explorelogs
(blog) Find your logs with Explore Logs: No LogQL required! : https://gra.fan/explorelogsblog

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introductions
00:01:25 Announcement - Promtail bug
00:03:15 What is Explore Logs?
00:06:10 Explore vs Explore Logs - Code, Low Code, and No Code modes
00:07:44 Installing Explore Logs as a Grafana plugin
00:15:16 Demo of Explore Logs
00:19:37 How are fields detected? Is structured metadata required?
00:23:25 How can we use Explore Logs for Grafana Enterprise?
00:25:49 Pattern ingestion for Explore Logs
00:31:05 Can I have custom labels inferred by Explore Logs?
00:35:20 Do patterns work on unstructured logs?
00:39:10 How to install Explore Logs
00:46:20 Is there a difference between OSS and Grafana Cloud Explore Logs?
00:48:03 Future of Explore Logs
00:51:47 Difficulties while developing Explore Logs
00:56:02 Streaming support for Explore Logs
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