All the Components of Loki Explained | Grafana Labs

All the Components of Loki Explained | Grafana Labs

Sep 20, 2024

Here are all the components of Loki explained so that you can figure out how many instances of each you need for a resilient Loki deployment. Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven talk you through what each component does and which ones are optional.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro

01:04 Distributors and hash rings

05:07 Ingesters

09:21 Query frontend

10:25 Query scheduler

10:56 Queriers

12:53 Index gateway

13:49 Compactor

14:39 Ruler

Helpful links:
(docs) Loki components: https://gra.fan/lokidocscomponents
(repo) Loki on GitHub: https://gra.fan/lokirepo
(docs) General Loki docs: https://gra.fan/lokidocs
(video) The Zero to Hero: Loki playlist: https://gra.fan/lokiz2h

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