LogQL

💪Exercise💪 (self-guided): LogQL — read and verify LogQL queries on the workshop cluster.

LogQL

Index Filtering

• How logs are generally parsed: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/query/log_queries/?pg=oss-loki&plcmt=quick-links#log-queries
  • The first part selects indexes
  • Then pipes
• Comparison:
  • Standard:
    • =: exactly equal
    • !=: not equal
    • =~: regex matches
    • !~: regex does not match
  • Regex log stream examples:
    • {name =~ "mysql.+"}
    • {name !~ "mysql.+"}
    • {name !~ `mysql-\d+`}

      Content Filtering

• Operators:
  • |=: Log line contains string
  • !=: Log line does not contain string
  • |~: Log line contains a match to the regular expression
  • !~: Log line does not contain a match to the regular expression

Exercises:

1. Q: Find all logs from namespace “default”
   1. A: {namespace="default"} |=
2. Q: Find logs from that namespace that contain “error” in the content
   1. A: {namespace="default"} |= "error"
3. Q: And ones that contain error but not from rabbit?
   1. A: {namespace="default"} |= "error" != "rabbit"