Datasource docs for Loki

- adds Loki data source docs to Grafana docs
- moved query-related docs from Explore to Loki

docs/sources/features/datasources/index.md

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ weight = 5
 
 
 Grafana supports many different storage backends for your time series data (Data Source). Each Data Source has a specific Query Editor that is customized for the features and capabilities that the particular Data Source exposes.
 Grafana supports many different storage backends for your time series data (Data Source). Each Data Source has a specific Query Editor that is customized for the features and capabilities that the particular Data Source exposes.
 
 
-
 ## Querying
 ## Querying
 
 
 The query language and capabilities of each Data Source are obviously very different. You can combine data from multiple Data Sources onto a single Dashboard, but each Panel is tied to a specific Data Source that belongs to a particular Organization.
 The query language and capabilities of each Data Source are obviously very different. You can combine data from multiple Data Sources onto a single Dashboard, but each Panel is tied to a specific Data Source that belongs to a particular Organization.
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ The following datasources are officially supported:
 * [InfluxDB]({{< relref "influxdb.md" >}})
 * [InfluxDB]({{< relref "influxdb.md" >}})
 * [OpenTSDB]({{< relref "opentsdb.md" >}})
 * [OpenTSDB]({{< relref "opentsdb.md" >}})
 * [Prometheus]({{< relref "prometheus.md" >}})
 * [Prometheus]({{< relref "prometheus.md" >}})
+* [Loki]({{< relref "loki.md" >}})
 * [MySQL]({{< relref "mysql.md" >}})
 * [MySQL]({{< relref "mysql.md" >}})
 * [Postgres]({{< relref "postgres.md" >}})
 * [Postgres]({{< relref "postgres.md" >}})
 * [Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)]({{< relref "mssql.md" >}})
 * [Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)]({{< relref "mssql.md" >}})

docs/sources/features/datasources/loki.md

++++
+title = "Using Loki in Grafana"
+description = "Guide for using Loki in Grafana"
+keywords = ["grafana", "loki", "logging", "guide"]
+type = "docs"
+aliases = ["/datasources/loki"]
+[menu.docs]
+name = "Loki"
+parent = "datasources"
+weight = 11
++++
+
+# Using Loki in Grafana
+
+> BETA: Querying Loki data requires Grafana's Explore section.
+> Grafana v6.x comes with Explore enabled by default.
+> In Grafana v5.3.x and v5.4.x. you need to enable Explore manually.
+> Viewing Loki data in dashboard panels is not supported yet, but is being worked on.
+
+Grafana ships with built-in support for Loki, Grafana's log aggregation system.
+Just add it as a datasource and you are ready to query your log data in [Explore](/features/explore).
+
+## Adding the data source to Grafana
+
+1. Open Grafana and make sure you are logged in.
+2. In the side menu under the `Configuration` link you should find a link named `Data Sources`.
+3. Click the `Add data source` button at the top.
+4. Select `Loki` from the list of data sources.
+
+> NOTE: If you're not seeing the `Data Sources` link in your side menu it means that your current user does not have the `Admin` role for the current organization.
+
+| Name            | Description                                                                                                                                   |
+| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| _Name_          | The datasource name. This is how you refer to the datasource in panels, queries, and Explore.                                                 |
+| _Default_       | Default datasource means that it will be pre-selected for new panels.                                                                         |
+| _URL_           | The URL of the Loki instance, e.g., `http://localhost:3100`                                                                                   |
+| _Maximum lines_ | Upper limit for number of log lines returned by Loki (default is 1000). Decrease if your browser is sluggish when displaying logs in Explore. |
+
+## Querying Logs
+
+Querying and displaying log data from Loki is available via [Explore](/features/explore).
+Select the Loki data source, and then enter a log query to display your logs.
+
+> Viewing Loki data in dashboard panels is not supported yet, but is being worked on.
+
+### Log Queries
+
+A log query consists of two parts: **log stream selector**, and a **search expression**. For performance reasons you need to start by choosing a log stream by selecting a log label.
+
+The Logs Explorer (the `Log labels` button) next to the query field shows a list of labels of available log streams. An alternative way to write a query is to use the query field's autocomplete - you start by typing a left curly brace `{` and the autocomplete menu will suggest a list of labels. Press the `enter` key to execute the query.
+
+Once the result is returned, the log panel shows a list of log rows and a bar chart where the x-axis shows the time and the y-axis shows the frequency/count.
+
+<div class="medium-6 columns">
+  <video width="800" height="500" controls>
+    <source src="/assets/videos/explore_loki.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+    Your browser does not support the video tag.
+  </video>
+</div>
+
+<br />
+
+### Log Stream Selector
+
+For the label part of the query expression, wrap it in curly braces `{}` and then use the key value syntax for selecting labels. Multiple label expressions are separated by a comma:
+
+`{app="mysql",name="mysql-backup"}`
+
+The following label matching operators are currently supported:
+
+* `=` exactly equal.
+* `!=` not equal.
+* `=~` regex-match.
+* `!~` do not regex-match.
+
+Examples:
+
+* `{name=~"mysql.+"}`
+* `{name!~"mysql.+"}`
+
+The [same rules that apply for Prometheus Label Selectors](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#instant-vector-selectors) apply for Loki Log Stream Selectors.
+
+Another way to add a label selector, is in the table section, clicking on the **Filter** button beside a label will add the label to the query expression. This even works for multiple queries and will the label selector to each query.
+
+### Search Expression
+
+After writing the Log Stream Selector, you can filter the results further by writing a search expression. The search expression can be just text or a regex expression.
+
+Example queries:
+
+* `{job="mysql"} error`
+* `{name="kafka"} tsdb-ops.*io:2003`
+* `{instance=~"kafka-[23]",name="kafka"} kafka.server:type=ReplicaManager`
+
+## Templating
+
+Template variables are not yet supported by Loki.
+
+## Annotations
+
+Annotations are not yet supported by Loki.
+
+## Configure the Datasource with Provisioning
+
+You can set up the datasource via config files with Grafana's provisioning system.
+You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here is an example:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Loki
+    type: loki
+    url: http://localhost:3100
+    jsonData:
+      maxLines: 1000
+```

docs/sources/features/explore/index.md

@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ The autocomplete menu can be trigger by pressing Ctrl + Space. The Autocomplete
 
 
 Suggestions can appear under the query field - click on them to update your query with the suggested change.
 Suggestions can appear under the query field - click on them to update your query with the suggested change.
 
 
-- For counters (monotonously increasing metrics), a rate function will be suggested.
-- For buckets, a histogram function will be suggested.
-- For recording rules, possible to expand the rules.
+* For counters (monotonously increasing metrics), a rate function will be suggested.
+* For buckets, a histogram function will be suggested.
+* For recording rules, possible to expand the rules.
 
 
 ### Table Filters
 ### Table Filters
 
 
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ Click on the filter button <span title="Filter for label" class="logs-label__ico
 
 
 For Grafana 6.0, the first log integration is for the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs - [Loki](https://github.com/grafana/loki). Loki is designed to be very cost effective, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. The logs from Loki are queried in a similar way to querying with label selectors in Prometheus. It uses labels to group log streams which can be made to match up with your Prometheus labels. Read more about Grafana Loki [here](https://github.com/grafana/loki) or the Grafana Labs hosted variant: [Grafana Cloud Logs](https://grafana.com/loki).
 For Grafana 6.0, the first log integration is for the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs - [Loki](https://github.com/grafana/loki). Loki is designed to be very cost effective, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. The logs from Loki are queried in a similar way to querying with label selectors in Prometheus. It uses labels to group log streams which can be made to match up with your Prometheus labels. Read more about Grafana Loki [here](https://github.com/grafana/loki) or the Grafana Labs hosted variant: [Grafana Cloud Logs](https://grafana.com/loki).
 
 
+See the [Loki's data source documentation](../datasources/loki) on how to query for log data.
+
 ### Switching from Metrics to Logs
 ### Switching from Metrics to Logs
 
 
 If you switch from a Prometheus query to a logs query (you can do a split first to have your metrics and logs side by side) then it will keep the labels from your query that exist in the logs and use those to query the log streams. For example, the following Prometheus query:
 If you switch from a Prometheus query to a logs query (you can do a split first to have your metrics and logs side by side) then it will keep the labels from your query that exist in the logs and use those to query the log streams. For example, the following Prometheus query:
@@ -91,67 +93,18 @@ after switching to the Logs datasource, the query changes to:
 
 
 This will return a chunk of logs in the selected time range that can be grepped/text searched.
 This will return a chunk of logs in the selected time range that can be grepped/text searched.
 
 
-### Log Queries
-
-A log query consists of two parts: **log stream selector**, and a **search expression**. For performance reasons you need to start by choosing a log stream by selecting a log label.
-
-The Logs Explorer (the `Log labels` button) next to the query field shows a list of labels of available log streams. An alternative way to write a query is to use the query field's autocomplete - you start by typing a left curly brace `{` and the autocomplete menu will suggest a list of labels. Press the `enter` key to execute the query.
-
-Once the result is returned, the log panel shows a list of log rows and a bar chart where the x-axis shows the time and the y-axis shows the frequency/count.
-
-<div class="medium-6 columns">
-  <video width="800" height="500" controls>
-    <source src="/assets/videos/explore_loki.mp4" type="video/mp4">
-    Your browser does not support the video tag.
-  </video>
-</div>
-
-<br />
-
-#### Log Stream Selector
-
-For the label part of the query expression, wrap it in curly braces `{}` and then use the key value syntax for selecting labels. Multiple label expressions are separated by a comma:
-
-`{app="mysql",name="mysql-backup"}`
-
-The following label matching operators are currently supported:
-
-- `=` exactly equal.
-- `!=` not equal.
-- `=~` regex-match.
-- `!~` do not regex-match.
-
-Examples:
-
-- `{name=~"mysql.+"}`
-- `{name!~"mysql.+"}`
-
-The [same rules that apply for Prometheus Label Selectors](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#instant-vector-selectors) apply for Loki Log Stream Selectors.
-
-Another way to add a label selector, is in the table section, clicking on the **Filter** button beside a label will add the label to the query expression. This even works for multiple queries and will the label selector to each query.
-
-#### Search Expression
-
-After writing the Log Stream Selector, you can filter the results further by writing a search expression. The search expression can be just text or a regex expression.
-
-Example queries:
-
-- `{job="mysql"} error`
-- `{name="kafka"} tsdb-ops.*io:2003`
-- `{instance=~"kafka-[23]",name="kafka"} kafka.server:type=ReplicaManager`
-
 ### Deduping
 ### Deduping
 
 
 Log data can be very repetitive and Explore can help by hiding duplicate log lines. There are a few different deduplication algorithms that you can use:
 Log data can be very repetitive and Explore can help by hiding duplicate log lines. There are a few different deduplication algorithms that you can use:
 
 
-- `exact` Exact matches are done on the whole line, except for date fields.
-- `numbers` Matches on the line after stripping out numbers (durations, IP addresses etc.).
-- `signature` The most aggressive deduping - strips all letters and numbers, and matches on the remaining whitespace and punctuation.
+* `exact` Exact matches are done on the whole line, except for date fields.
+* `numbers` Matches on the line after stripping out numbers (durations, IP addresses etc.).
+* `signature` The most aggressive deduping - strips all letters and numbers, and matches on the remaining whitespace and punctuation.
 
 
 ### Timestamp, Local time and Labels
 ### Timestamp, Local time and Labels
 
 
 There are some other check boxes under the logging graph apart from the Deduping options.
 There are some other check boxes under the logging graph apart from the Deduping options.
 
 
-- Timestamp: shows/hides the Timestamp column
-- Local time: shows/hides the Local time column
-- Labels: shows/hides the label filters column
+* Timestamp: shows/hides the Timestamp column
+* Local time: shows/hides the Local time column
+* Labels: shows/hides the label filters column