Loki for Kubernetes Logging: The Prometheus-Like Approach
You’ve got Prometheus for metrics. You can see what’s happening across your clusters. But when something breaks, metrics tell you that something is wrong — logs tell you why. The traditional answer is Elasticsearch. It’s powerful, flexible, and… expensive. It indexes everything, which means you pay for every byte of log data in CPU, memory, and storage. Loki takes a different approach: index labels, not content. It’s the same philosophy that makes Prometheus efficient for metrics, applied to logs. ...