Promtail Connection Refused to Loki (Hosted AWS Client connecting to Hosted AWS Grafana/Loki))

Grafana Configuration
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I have a Grafana/Loki Server running in AWS. Promtail can connect and upload logs within the Grafana/Loki server but when I try to connect from the remote host I am getting “Connection Refused”. I am able to telnet from the remote server to port 3100 but when I look at the logs the confusing part is promtail is throwing the following error:

msg=“error sending batch, will retry” status=-1 tenant= error="Post "http://Public_IP/:3100/loki/api/v1/push": dial tcp Public_IP:80: connect: connection refused.

From this I can’t understand why Promtail is sending a “Dial TCP” to port 80 and not 3100. I have found no information as to why this is the behavior.

My current Promtail Config:
server:
http_listen_port: 9080
grpc_listen_port: 0

positions:
filename: /tmp/positions.yaml

clients:

  • url: ‘http://public_ip/:3100/loki/api/v1/push’

scrape_configs:

  • job_name: system
    static_configs:
    • targets:
      • localhost
        labels:
        job: memaDEV
        path: /home2/tefsof5/logs/http_access.log
        stream: stdout

On a final note I am able to confirm both promtail and loki are in the ready status. Also as mentioned telnet from the remote host to the Grafana/Loki server is able to connect. Both Servers are Rocky Linux

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Okay I figured out my dumb mistake.

I had this:
clients:

  • url: ‘http://public_ip/:3100/loki/api/v1/push’
  • and it should have been this:
  • url: ‘http://public_ip:3100/loki/api/v1/push’ (NO SLASH AFTER THE PUBLIC IP)