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Add GELF support for Promtail. #4744

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What this PR does / why we need it:

This PR adds support for GELF UDP protocol to listen and send GELF message to Loki.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #4743

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  • Documentation added
  • Tests updated
  • Add an entry in the CHANGELOG.md about the changes.

@cyriltovena cyriltovena changed the title Add Gelf support for Promtail. Add GELF support for Promtail. Nov 12, 2021
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LGTM!

@cyriltovena cyriltovena merged commit 81e67f8 into grafana:main Nov 15, 2021

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I'm suprised you don't expose the extra fields as e.g. __gelf_message_extra_<name>

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Created an issue #4846

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// Add all labels from the config.
for k, v := range t.config.Labels {
lb.Set(string(k), string(v))
}
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Isn't this the same for each message? Why is it done each time?

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To ensure label are clone and not mutated after. Might not be required.

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The `gelf` block configures a GELF UDP listener allowing users to push
logs to Promtail with the [GELF](https://docs.graylog.org/docs/gelf) protocol.
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Does this mean Promtail has a continuous connection with a server? What's happening when it fails?

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Promtail is the server.

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And there's no connection in UDP.

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Ah, it's been a long time that I've looked at UDP 🙈

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GELF support in promtail
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