Send data from Loki Multiplexer to Axiom

Loki by Prometheus is a multi-tenant log aggregation system that’s highly scalable and capable of indexing metadata about your logs.

Loki exposes an HTTP API for pushing, querying, and tailing Axiom log data.

Axiom Loki Proxy provides a gateway for you to connect a direct link interface to Axiom via Loki endpoint.

Using the Axiom Loki Proxy, you can ship logs to Axiom via the Loki HTTP API.

Prerequisites#

• Create an Axiom account.
• Create a dataset in Axiom where you send your data.
• Create an API token in Axiom with permissions to ingest data to the dataset you have created.

Installation#

Install and update using Homebrew#

brew tap axiomhq/tap
brew install axiom-loki-proxy
brew update
brew upgrade axiom-loki-proxy

Install using go get#

go get -u github.com/axiomhq/axiom-loki-proxy/cmd/axiom-loki-proxy

Install from source#

git clone https://github.com/axiomhq/axiom-loki-proxy.git
cd axiom-loki-proxy
make build

Run the Loki-Proxy Docker#

docker pull axiomhq/axiom-loki-proxy:latest

Configuration#

Specify the environmental variables for your Axiom deployment:

AXIOM_URL = AXIOM_DOMAIN
AXIOM_TOKEN = API_TOKEN

Run and test#

./axiom-loki-proxy

Using Docker#

docker run -p8080:8080/tcp \
  -e=AXIOM_TOKEN=<API_TOKEN> \
  axiomhq/axiom-loki-proxy

For more information on Axiom Loki Proxy and how you can propose bug fix, report issues and submit PRs, see the GitHub repository.