How to install Loki on EndeavourOS

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to install Loki on EndeavourOS.

Prerequisites

An EndeavourOS latest installed and updated system.
A user account with administrative privileges (sudo).

Step 1: Install Loki

Open your terminal and update your system's package repository by running the following command:
```
sudo pacman -Syu
```
Install Loki by running the following command:
```
sudo pacman -S loki
```

Step 2: Configure Loki

Create a configuration file for Loki by running the following command:

sudo nano /etc/loki/local-config.yaml

and paste the following configuration there:

server:
  http_listen_port: 3100
  grpc_listen_port: 9095

auth_enabled: false

ingester:
  lifecycler:
    address: 127.0.0.1
    ring:
      kvstore:
        store: inmemory
      replication_factor: 1
    final_sleep: 0s
  chunk_idle_period: 5m
  chunk_retain_period: 30s

schema_config:
  configs:
    - from: 2021-01-01
      store: boltdb
      object_store: filesystem
      schema: v11
      index:
        prefix: index_
        period: 24h

storage_config:
  boltdb:
    directory: /var/lib/loki/index

limits_config:
  enforce_metric_name: false
  reject_old_samples: true
  reject_old_samples_max_age: 168h

chunk_store_config:
  max_look_back_period: 0s

table_manager:
  retention_deletes_enabled: false
  retention_period: 0s

Save and exit the file.

Step 3: Run Loki

Run the following command to start Loki:
```
sudo systemctl start loki
```
Check the status of Loki by running the following command:
```
sudo systemctl status loki
```

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure Loki on EndeavourOS. Now that Loki is up and running, you can start sending logs to it and using its powerful querying and alerting features.