The following Promtail documentation recommends docker: {} pipeline stage for kubernetes_sd_configs
However, the official Grafana’s helm chart that deploys Promtail uses cri: {} pipeline stage:
helm template my-release grafana/loki-stack > output.yaml
That means Grafana’s documentation and Grafana’s helm chart supposed to be equivalent, but they use different pipeline stages. I am not sure which one should I trust.
What is the correct pipeline stage I should use for kubernetes_sd_configs?
PS:
For the reference, here is the configuration that Grafana’s Promtail helm chart produces:
server:
log_level: info
log_format: logfmt
http_listen_port: 3101
clients:
- url: http://my-release:3100/loki/api/v1/push
positions:
filename: /run/promtail/positions.yaml
scrape_configs:
# See also https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/production/ksonnet/promtail/scrape_config.libsonnet for reference
- job_name: kubernetes-pods
pipeline_stages:
- cri: {}
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: pod
relabel_configs:
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_controller_name
regex: ([0-9a-z-.]+?)(-[0-9a-f]{8,10})?
action: replace
target_label: __tmp_controller_name
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_name
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app
- __tmp_controller_name
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: app
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_instance
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_instance
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: instance
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_component
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_component
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: component
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_node_name
target_label: node_name
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
target_label: namespace
- action: replace
replacement: $1
separator: /
source_labels:
- namespace
- app
target_label: job
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
target_label: pod
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: container
- action: replace
replacement: /var/log/pods/*$1/*.log
separator: /
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_uid
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: __path__
- action: replace
regex: true/(.*)
replacement: /var/log/pods/*$1/*.log
separator: /
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotationpresent_kubernetes_io_config_hash
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_kubernetes_io_config_hash
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: __path__