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loki.source.docker

loki.source.docker reads log entries from Docker containers and forwards them to other loki.* components. Each component can read from a single Docker daemon.

Multiple loki.source.docker components can be specified by giving them different labels.

Usage

Alloy 
loki.source.docker "LABEL" {
  host       = HOST
  targets    = TARGET_LIST
  forward_to = RECEIVER_LIST
}

Arguments

The component starts a new reader for each of the given targets and fans out log entries to the list of receivers passed in forward_to.

loki.source.docker supports the following arguments:

NameType