Documentation for running Promtail on AWS ECS confusing

Grafana Loki
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I am trying to deploy Loki on AWS ECS and collect logs using Promtail. I am following this page (Run the Promtail client on AWS ECS) and have the following questions.

  1. The log router image used on ECS is grafana/fluent-bit-plugin-loki, which seems to be using a fluent bit log router instead of Promtail, am I missing something here?
  2. In my understanding, Promtail is an alternative to Fluent Bit and it works better with Loki. Is there any stats/best-practices on choosing the right log router for Loki?
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See linked doc:

In this example we will use fluentbit with the fluentbit output plugin installed

So that’s just example, nothing stopping you to use your favorite tool.

Question about right log router is opinionated question.
My opinion: I would use ADOT, because it’s supported by AWS and it’s not just for logs, but also for other signals (metrics, traces): https://aws-otel.github.io/