Loki

Workflow

1. Confirm log use cases, retention targets, and compliance requirements.
2. Design label schema with strict cardinality budget.
3. Configure ingestion pipeline and parsing stages.
4. Implement tenant boundaries and access controls.
5. Build performant LogQL query patterns.
6. Tune retention, compaction, and storage costs.
7. Validate incident workflows and query latency.

Preflight (Ask / Check First)

• Loki version and deployment mode.
• Ingestion rate and expected stream counts.
• Required labels for alerting and triage.
• Multi-tenant isolation needs.
• Current query timeout/error patterns.