Docker Promtail or Alloy?

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@tonyswumac

Note that Alloy replaced Promtail in the stack, because Promtail is considered to be feature complete, and future development for logs collection will be in Grafana Alloy.

In that same guide, if you checked the docker page, they used Promtail, not Alloy. Does this mean I have to ignore and edit out the Promtail parts?

Also, in the Alloy Tutorial, it should be a simple follow to do exercise, but the localhost:12345 or its redirect link doesn’t work. Do you happened to know why?

(Links below because new user can only post 2 links)

Docker page:
https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/setup/install/docker/

Alloy Tutorial:
https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/tutorials/send-logs-to-loki/

2. Of course there is a docker method, …
3. There are many ways you can deploy Loki and Alloy, whatever you decide most likely depends on what you want to do.

If you can explain a bit on what exactly you are trying to achieve perhaps I can offer more recommendations.

Do I have to install Loki (without Promtail) and Alloy separately? Is there no existing docker-compose.yml with Loki and Alloy?