Missing recent data in Loki with boltdb-shipper

We switched our Loki instance from one to three replicas, so we are less likely to lose data. It is using S3 with boltdb-shipper. Generally this works, but the data is missing until the last 15 minutes (ie the data appears in 15 minutes chunks at xx:00, xx:15, xx:30 and xx:45).

I failed to figure out from the docs what the issue of this problem is. We are not using the full microservice approach, because it is not necessary at our current load.


Here is a graph that shows that there are no logs for the last 15 minutes. A few minutes later it would show all the data until 17:15.

Grafana example graph


This is our current config. We are using the Helm template with 3 replicas:

  auth_enabled: false

  table_manager:
    retention_deletes_enabled: true
    retention_period: 168h

  server:
    http_listen_port: 3100

  memberlist:
    abort_if_cluster_join_fails: false

    bind_port: 7946

    join_members:
      - loki-headless.default.svc.cluster.local:7946

    max_join_backoff: 1m
    max_join_retries: 10
    min_join_backoff: 1s

  distributor:
    ring:
      kvstore:
        store: memberlist

  ingester:
    lifecycler:
      address: 127.0.0.1
      ring:
        replication_factor: 1
        kvstore:
          store: memberlist
      final_sleep: 0s
    chunk_idle_period: 5m
    chunk_retain_period: 30s

  schema_config:
    configs:
      - from: 2021-11-17
        store: boltdb-shipper
        object_store: aws
        schema: v11
        index:
          prefix: index_
          period: 24h

  storage_config:
    aws:
      bucketnames: loki-xxxxxxxx
      region: eu-west-1
    boltdb_shipper:
      active_index_directory: /data/loki/boltdb-shipper-active
      cache_location: /data/loki/boltdb-shipper-cache
      cache_ttl: 24h
      shared_store: s3
    index_queries_cache_config:
      redis:
        endpoint: loki-default-keydb.default.svc.cluster.local:6379

  limits_config:
    enforce_metric_name: false
    reject_old_samples: true
    reject_old_samples_max_age: 168h

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