Promtail Character encoding of log files

Grafana Loki
#1

We are trying to setup Loki and Promtail to collect logs for some legacy system, however we are running into issues regarding the Character encoding of the log files. The log files are encoded as ISO-8859-1 however Promtail reads the files as UTF-8 causing some characters to be grabled.

Is there any workaround for this Issue?

#2

no workarounds that I know of I’m afraid.

I did look at what it would take to add this and I think it’s something we could fit in over the next couple weeks.

#3

Hi Ed
Thank you for the response. Should I create or is there already an issue i github where I can follow the progress on this?