Promtail

Name: Promtail
Author: Grafana Labs

An agent that ships logs from files to Grafana Loki or other compatible backends

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Promtail is a log collection agent developed by Grafana Labs, primarily used to ship logs from local files to Grafana Loki. It discovers log files on the host filesystem, tails them, and forwards the data with optional label enrichment. Promtail is especially useful in Kubernetes…