Grafana Loki - Bad Gateway when using https

[sanlupam03]

Hi, we already have loki installed, however it’s running on http.

we tried to edit the loki config to listen to https but we got this error line 4: field https_listen_port not found in type server.Config

And on the explore of grafana/loki ui we set the server to https://localhost:3100 however it’s returning bad gateway error message.

http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client

is it possible to run loki to a https? Thanks!

[dannykopping]

Hi @sanlupam03, thanks for the question.

is it possible to run loki to a https? Thanks!

Unfortunately it is not. You’ll need to setup a proxy in front of Loki.
This blog post describes how to enable such a proxy using nginx.

[lithimlin]

I just want to make sure here that I understood you correctly:

So I cannot run Loki with HTTPS, even if it’s done using a proxy but instead, I should just use HTTP and basic auth?
Or can I use Loki with HTTPS if I do so via a proxy?
The blog post you linked only talks about the former but I thought I could enable SSL through a proxy.