Monitoring
promtail
Log agent for Loki ingestion.
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Verified: 2026-05-11
Syntax
$promtail -config.file=FILE
Examples
$promtail -config.file=/etc/promtail/config.yml
$promtail -print-config-stderr
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
promtail --help
Note
Collects logs from host/containers and sends them to Loki.
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