Getting self created logfiles into loki

[bd3dengelen]

A custom developed application generates event log data.
sorted in a folder structure on disk like this:
c:\log\2022\12\21\

So a folder per day.
In this folder there are several logfiles that contain text info with timestamp and event or error definition

I would like to get this data in loki.
The server is up and running (checked with getting the logs from the different containers created). But i am kind of stuck in getting the custom files.

The promtail scrapeconfig looks like this:

scrape_configs:

• job_name: docker

  use docker.sock to filter containers

  docker_sd_configs:
  • host: “unix:///var/run/docker.sock”
    refresh_interval: 15s
    filters:
    • name: label
      values: [“com.docker.compose.project=testloki”]

  use container name to create a loki label

  relabel_configs:
  • source_labels: [‘__meta_docker_container_name’]
    regex: ‘/(.*)’
    target_label: ‘container’
• job_name: customlog
  static_configs:
  • targets:
    • 172.22.5.44
      labels:
      job: customlog
      path: C:\log\2022*log

What would be a good approach to get this data into loki?

thx,

Ben

[yosiasz]

Are these files located on a windows host?

[bd3dengelen]

Yes they are located on a windows host

[yosiasz]

For now forget docker and use promtail for windows pointing at

C:\log\2022\*.log or C:/log/2022/*log