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README.md

journaldtail

This is a small PoC to explore how to ship journald logs to grafana loki. This code is currently work in progress.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

I made this project since the promtail community is not sure if promtail will support journald. (see: https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/26#issuecomment-446961639 )

Building

To build this, you'll need cgo and the systemd headers installed - for example, on a Debian based system, apt-get install libsystemd-dev.

Journal fields

When you import Journald logs to loki, you'll see a large number of log labels. Its worth reading the systemd journal fields documentation to get a feel for what is available to you.

ToDo

Fix logging infrastructure in code
Enable configuration via flagext
Support relabeling config like in promtail
Tests
Build and release pipeline
Documentation
Store journald cursor position on disk to allow restart of journaldtail