Example integration of a Kafka Producer, Kafka Broker and Promtail producing test data to Grafana Cloud Logs, see architecture
Requires Docker and Docker Compose
Configure the environment variables below from your Grafana Cloud Account Logs Data Source settings:
Edit the file: envvars-grafana-cloud-stack1.sh
export GRAFANA_LOGS_HOST="logs-prod-us-central1.grafana.net"
export GRAFANA_LOGS_USERNAME="123456"
export GRAFANA_LOGS_API_KEY="eyJrIjoi...."
source envvars-grafana-cloud-stack1.sh
./ctl.sh configure
Check the file promtail-config.yml
now has the correct LOGS credentials
./ctl.sh build
./ctl.sh up
This will start the containers: zookeeper, kafka, producer and promtail
Using the Logs Data Source and LogQL Check for log messages under the labels: {job="kafka"}
and {job="varlogs"}
Import the example dashboard dashboard-example-1.json
into Grafana and configure the Logs Data Source
./ctl.sh down