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Logging Best Practices (Grafana ❤️🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #3)

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100

In this community call with my coworker Liudmila Molkova, we explored logging best practices in the context of OpenTelemetry. We discussed how to structure logs for observability, the relationship between logs and other telemetry signals (traces and metrics), and practical patterns for making logs more useful in distributed systems. The conversation covered log levels, contextual information, correlation with traces, and common pitfalls to avoid when instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry logging.

All about OTel and Logging on Kubernetes with Loki (Loki Community Call April 2025)

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:57:58 +0100

In this pre-recorded Loki Community Call, we talk all about OTel and logging on Kubernetes with Cyril Tovena, Ward Bekker, Jay Clifford, and Nicole van der Hoeven at KubeCon EU 2025 in London. We discuss when why you should switch to OTel and why you shouldn’t, what OTLP is exactly, and best practices for ingesting data through an OTLP endpoint.

Grafana Loki Query Best Practices with LogQL (Loki Community Call December 2024)

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:48:49 +0100

In this December’s Loki Community Call, Cyril Tovena, Senior Principal Engineer and LogQL guru walks us through a Grafana Loki query tutorial with LogQL, the Log Query Language used for Loki. He talks about the key “Dos and Don’ts” of LogQL, offering practical tips to help you write better queries, boost performance, and sidestep common mistakes.

Whether you’re tuning up your current setup or just diving into LogQL, Cyril’s got you covered. Bring your questions, connect with the Loki community, and pick up insights that’ll make your log-querying life easier. See you there!

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Cyril is joined by Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven.

All About Logs Drilldown (Loki Community Call October 2024)

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:45:33 +0100

In this Community Call, Senior Software Engineer Trevor Whitney talks to us all about Drilldown Logs for Grafana Loki, an open-source app for visualizing logs from Loki in Grafana without needing to learn and write LogQL queries. He is joined by Senior Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Jay Clifford.

All the Components of Loki Explained

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:09:35 +0100

Here are all the components of Loki explained so that you can figure out how many instances of each you need for a resilient Loki deployment. Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven talk you through what each component does and which ones are optional.

Bloom Filter Changes for Grafana Loki (Loki Community Call September 2024)

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:41:18 +0100

In this Community Call, Senior Software Engineer Christian Haudum talks to us about bloom filter changes for Grafana Loki, including the deprecation of the bloom compactor and a pivot towards creating bloom filters for structured metadata. Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure that we’re using to improve query performance in Loki.

Community Calls are monthly meetings that are open to everyone interested in the development of Loki. They are an opportunity for software engineers working on Loki to discuss new features as well as for open-source users of Loki to ask questions. To participate in the next Community Call, subscribe to the calendar here.

How to Get Started With Loki

Fri, 10 May 2024 18:12:09 +0100

If you were looking for how to get started with Loki, here’s a video where Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven talk about what Loki is, how to ingest logs with Loki, how to deploy Loki, and finally how to visualize your logs with Grafana.