Grafana Loki: Production Setup & Upgrade Guide

Setting Up Grafana Loki for Production: Best Practices & Insights

Make sure you have tested your configuration in non-critical environments before proceeding to PROD

In my previous blog, we explored the architecture of Loki.

If you are joining us directly here, I recommend checking out that blog before proceeding.

Grafana Loki: all you need to know

I prefer deploying Loki in microservice mode for production environments, as it allows me to fine-tune each component for optimal performance. This setup is recommended for achieving high availability.

Given that we are using microservice mode, we will install it using the official Helm chart.

Prior to Grafana Loki version 3.0, we utilized the loki-distributed chart for our distributed (microservice) setup.