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Promtail

Promtail is an open-source log collection agent that is part of the Grafana Loki stack. It reads logs from files, systemd-journal, Kubernetes pods or docker containers, adds labels and sends them to Loki for storage and analysis.

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In Pepeunit, Promtail is used to read data from /var/lib/docker/containers:ro and /var/run/docker.sock:ro and then send it to Loki.

Unlike Logporter, it also allows retrieving information about resource usage.