Discover Loki: A Lightweight Alternative to the ELK Stack

Learn about the new horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus that can be the best fit for your logging architecture

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When we talk about Cloud-Native Architecture, log aggregation is something key that you need to consider. The old practices that we followed in the on-premises virtual machine approach for logging are not valid anymore.

We already cover this topic in my previous post that I recommend you to talk a look in case you haven’t read it yet, but this is not the topic for today.

Three reasons why you need a Log Aggregation Architecture today

Elasticsearch as the core and the different derívate de stacks like ELK/EFK had gained popularity in the last years, being pretty much the default open-source option when we talked about log aggregation and one of the options. The main public cloud providers have also adopted this solution as part of their own offering as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides.