About the episode

Enhance observability in your Golang application by setting up logging with Loki, Promtail, and Grafana! 🚀 In this episode, we’ll walk you through the entire process—from configuring a Go application to collect logs using slog, setting up Promtail to send logs to Loki, and finally visualizing them in Grafana.  

🔥 What You’ll Learn:  
✅ Understanding observability: Logs, Metrics, and Traces  
✅ Configuring slog for structured logging in Go  
✅ Setting up Loki as a log aggregation system  
✅ Using Promtail to collect and send logs  
✅ Installing and configuring Grafana to query logs  
✅ Filtering logs using Grafana Explore  

📌 Resources & Links:  
🔗 Loki Documentation: https://grafana.com/oss/loki/
🔗 Promtail Setup Guide: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/
🔗 Grafana Official Website: https://grafana.com/
🔗 Grafana Labs's package repository: https://apt.grafana.com/
🔗 Source code: https://github.com/code-heim/go_79_loki_grafana

💡 We’ve only scratched the surface! Grafana offers many powerful features for monitoring, alerting, and visualization. Keep exploring and experimenting with log queries, dashboards, and alerting rules to get the most out of it!  

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🔔 Stay tuned for more Go and observability tutorials!

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