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Install the Helm Chart

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This Helm Chart installation runs the Grafana Loki cluster within a Kubernetes cluster.

If object storge is configured, this chart configures Loki to run read and write targets in a scalable mode, highly available architecture (3 replicas of each) designed to work with AWS S3 object storage. It will also configure meta-monitoring of metrics and logs.

It is not possible to run the scalable mode with the filesystem storage.

Before you begin:

  • Helm 3 or above. See Installing Helm.
  • A running Kubernetes cluster.
  • A Prometheus operator installation in case meta-monitoring should be used.
  • Optionally a Memcached deployment for better performance. Consult the caching section on how to configure Memcached.

To deploy Loki in scalable mode:

  1. Add Grafana’s chart repository to Helm:

    bash 
    helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts

  2. Update the chart repository:

    bash 
    helm repo update

  3. Configure the object storage:

    • Create the configuration file values.yaml. The example below illustrates a s3 configuration:

      yaml 
      loki:
  storage:
    bucketNames:
      chunks: chunks
      ruler: ruler
      admin: admin
    type: s3
    s3:
      endpoint: <endpoint>
      region: <AWS region>
      secretAccessKey: <AWS secret access key>
      accessKeyId: <AWS access key ID>
      s3ForcePathStyle: false
      insecure: false

      Consult the Reference for configuring other storage providers.

    • If you’re just trying things, you can use the following configuration instead, that sets MinIO as storage:

      yaml 
      minio:
  enabled: true

  4. Install or upgrade the Loki deployment with this command.

    bash 
    helm install --values values.yaml loki grafana/loki
# or upgrade for existing installations
helm upgrade --values values.yaml loki grafana/loki