Go to Explore and make sure Loki is set as the data source.
Welcome to Explore! Things look quite a bit different from what you may remember from using Explore with other data sources. Let's take a quick tour of some of the basic UI features:
The features highlighted in the preceding screenshot are as follows:
- Log labels/Metrics Explorer: This is where you can use the Log labels or Metrics Explorer to access log labels as they are generated or parsed from your logs. Logs can also be aggregated into metrics. Loki is architected somewhat differently than Elasticsearch in that it doesn't create a database of indexed log files. Rather, it simply associates logs with text labels, similar to metrics labels in Prometheus.
- Query field: You enter log stream queries here using the LogQL query language, which is very similar to PromQL for Prometheus. Selections made...
