Grafana allows browsing operating system-level logs recorded in files.

See Managing Log Forwarder for instructions on forwarding these logs to an external server.

To browse log files with Grafana

  1. In the left sidebar of the Grafana portal, click the compass icon and select Explore.
  2. In the top list, select Loki.
  3. In the Label filters list, select filename.
  4. In the Select value field, select a log file.
  5. Click +Operations to filter the file contents.
  6. Click +Add query to include additional filters – for example:
  7. In the top-right corner, click Run query to display the selected contents.