Grafana Cloud Loki Data Source configuation

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Howdy

Sorry for the noob question (when setting the bar may as well set it on the floor).

I’ve currently got a free Grafana Cloud account and want to send application logs to it. If I can get this working then I’ll be able to get clearance to set up a Pro account for our team.

We’re using Fluentd as our log collector; I’ve added the fluent grafana-loki plugin and have managed to get logs sent a locally running loki (running in docker in microservices mode).

For Grafana Cloud, my understanding is that I need to configure a data source(?), then simply update the fluentd configuration to use this URL (and username+password) - please correct me if I’m wrong here.
The trouble I’m having, with the data source configuration, is the URL: do I need to provide my own (with the DNS pointing at grafana servers)? Or can I use the .grafana.net URL provided by Grafana? (I’ve tried using it with no luck but that’s where the docs are unclear, or I’m just being stupid).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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I managed to figure this out: I needed to generate an access token from within my Grafana account. From there I was able to get the required credentials to start sending logs :person_facepalming:

It seems like this could be signposted a little better (perhaps with relevant doc pages stating it as a prerequisite with a link to the relevant doc), however I’m pretty sure I stumbled across it in this way so I may have simply been looking at the “wrong”(?) doc pages.

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Glad to hear this worked out @therealchainatan01 . Good feedback for us to make some updates on the docs.