v2025.08

🎉 LGTM+ Observability Stack v2025.08 - The Ultimate Kubernetes Monitoring Solution! 🚀

Welcome to the most comprehensive and flexible observability stack deployment for Kubernetes! 🌟 This release brings you the complete LGTM+ stack with enhanced performance, streamlined deployment, and unmatched flexibility!

🔥 What Makes This Release Amazing?

✨ Complete Observability Ecosystem

• 📊 Grafana - Stunning unified dashboards and visualisations
• 📈 Prometheus - Lightning-fast metrics collection and alerting
• 🗃️ Mimir - Scalable long-term metrics storage (1 billion+ series!)
• 📝 Loki - Cost-effective log aggregation without indexing overhead
• 🔗 Tempo - High-performance distributed tracing backend
• 🔥 Pyroscope - Continuous profiling for performance insights
• 🚀 Alloy - Flexible, vendor-neutral telemetry collector
• 🛡️ Beyla - Revolutionary eBPF auto-instrumentation (no code changes!)

🎯 Incredible Benefits & Flexibility

🚀 Zero-Config Auto-Instrumentation

• Beyla automatically captures RED metrics and traces using eBPF
• No application code modifications required!
• Instant visibility into HTTP/S and gRPC services

🔧 Modular & Composable Architecture

• Deploy only what you need - each component works independently
• Easy to extend and customise for your specific requirements
• Mix and match components based on your observability needs

💰 Cost-Effective Design

• Loki's label-based approach reduces storage costs dramatically
• Efficient resource utilisation across all components
• Scale metrics to billions of active series with Mimir

🎨 Unified Experience

• Single pane of glass for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
• Seamless correlation between different telemetry types
• Pre-configured dashboards and alerting rules

⚡ Production-Ready Performance

• High-availability configurations out of the box
• Optimised for Kubernetes workloads
• Battle-tested components from Grafana Labs

🔒 Enterprise-Grade Security

• RBAC configurations included
• Secure service-to-service communication
• Configurable authentication and authorisation

🛠️ Installation

Getting started is incredibly simple! Just follow these steps:

# Create monitoring namespace
kubectl create namespace monitoring

# Deploy all services
kubectl apply -k deployment/ -n monitoring

That's it! 🎊 Your complete observability stack will be up and running in minutes!

🥇 What You Get Out of the Box

After deployment, you'll have access to:

• Grafana UI at http://localhost:3000 (via port-forward)
• Prometheus Metrics for real-time monitoring
• Loki Logs for centralised log aggregation
• Tempo Traces for distributed request tracing
• Pyroscope Profiles for continuous performance profiling
• Pre-configured Dashboards for immediate insights
• Alerting Rules for proactive monitoring

🚀 Quick Start Guide

1. Deploy the stack:

   kubectl apply -k deployment/ -n monitoring

2. Access Grafana:

   kubectl port-forward -n monitoring svc/grafana 3000:3000

3. Start monitoring immediately! 📈

   • All datasources are pre-configured
   • Dashboards are ready to use
   • Auto-instrumentation is active via Beyla

🎨 Perfect For

✅ DevOps Teams - Complete infrastructure observability
✅ SRE Engineers - Production monitoring and alerting
✅ Developers - Application performance insights
✅ Platform Teams - Multi-tenant observability solutions
✅ Kubernetes Operators - Cloud-native monitoring stack

🌟 Why Choose This Stack?

• 🏆 Industry Standard - Built on proven Grafana ecosystem
• 🔥 Latest Technology - eBPF, OpenTelemetry, and modern observability
• 🎯 Production Tested - Battle-hardened configurations
• 📚 Well Documented - Comprehensive guides and examples
• 🤝 Community Driven - Open source with active contribution
• ⚡ Easy Migration - Compatible with existing Prometheus/Grafana setups

🎉 Ready to Transform Your Observability?

This release represents the pinnacle of Kubernetes observability - combining cutting-edge technology with proven reliability. Whether you're running microservices, monoliths, or hybrid architectures, this stack provides unparalleled visibility into your systems!

Happy Monitoring! 📊✨

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What's Changed

• chore: optimise Kubernetes deployments resource allocation and configurations by @saidsef in #188
• feat: optimize resource allocation and performance tuning for Loki stack by @saidsef in #190
• ✨ feat: Supercharge Grafana with 17+ plugins & enhanced configuration 🚀 by @saidsef in #192
• chore(prometheus): infer procs and mem from resources spec by @saidsef in #198
• feat(alloy): enhance Alloy configuration with clustering by @saidsef in #199
• feat(tempo): enhance storage resource limits configuration by @saidsef in #201
• feat(mimir): enhance configuration container args and environment variables by @saidsef in #202
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #204

Full Changelog: v2025.07...v2025.08

v2025.07

Grafana Loki on Kubernetes - v2025.07

Complete monitoring stack deployment with Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for Kubernetes environments.

Installation

# Create monitoring namespace
kubectl create namespace monitoring

# Deploy all services
kubectl apply -k deployment/ -n monitoring

Features

• 📊 Grafana - Data visualisation and dashboards
• 📝 Loki - Log aggregation system
• 📈 Prometheus - Metrics collection and alerting
• 🔧 Kustomize - Configuration management
• 🎯 Production-ready - Optimised for Kubernetes

Components

This release includes:

• Grafana dashboard with pre-configured datasources
• Loki for centralised logging
• Prometheus for metrics collection
• Service monitors and alerting rules
• Persistent volume configurations

Requirements

• Kubernetes cluster (v1.20+)
• kubectl configured
• Sufficient cluster resources for monitoring stack

Documentation

See the README for detailed configuration options and troubleshooting.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/saidsef/grafana-loki-on-k8s/commits/v2025.07

What's Changed

• chore: update architecture diagram by @saidsef in #170
• chore: minor version bumps for grafana and prometheus by @saidsef in #172
• feat: add grafana beyla ebpf application auto-instrumentation by @saidsef in #177
• chore: update services descriptions by @saidsef in #179
• chore: Enhance Kubernetes target relabeling and label mapping in Alloy config by @saidsef in #180

Full Changelog: v2025.06...v2025.07

v2025.06

Release v2025.06

What's New

This release includes the latest updates and improvements for deploying Grafana Loki on Kubernetes.

Features

• Updated Kubernetes manifests
• Enhanced configuration options
• Improved documentation
• Latest compatibility updates

Notes

• Ensure your Kubernetes cluster meets the minimum requirements
• Review the configuration before deployment
• Check the documentation for any breaking changes

For more details, see the README.

What's Changed

• fix(tempo): comprehensive configuration improvements and fixes by @saidsef in #156

Full Changelog: v2025.04...v2025.06