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Commit 15a37238 authored by Juho Mäkinen's avatar Juho Mäkinen
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Fix underscores with Markdown rendering in Promtail examples

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......@@ -14,20 +14,20 @@ The term "label" here is used in more than one different way and they can be eas
* Labels starting with __ (two underscores) are internal labels. They are not stored to the loki index and are
invisible after Promtail. They "magically" appear from different sources.
* Labels starting with __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_* are "meta labels" which are generated based on your kubernetes
* Labels starting with \_\_meta_kubernetes_pod_label_* are "meta labels" which are generated based on your kubernetes
pod labels. Example: If your kubernetes pod has a label "name" set to "foobar" then the scrape_configs section
will have a label __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_name with value set to "foobar".
will have a label \_\_meta_kubernetes_pod_label_name with value set to "foobar".
* There are other __meta_kubernetes_* labels based on the Kubernetes metadadata, such as the namespace the pod is
running (__meta_kubernetes_namespace) or the name of the container inside the pod (__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name)
* The label __path__ is a special label which Promtail will read to find out where the log files are to be read in.
running (__meta_kubernetes_namespace) or the name of the container inside the pod (\_\_meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name)
* The label \_\_path\_\_ is a special label which Promtail will read to find out where the log files are to be read in.
The most important part of each entry is the *relabel_configs* which are a list of operations which creates,
renames, modifies or alters labels. A single scrape_config can also reject logs by doing an "action: drop" which means
that this particular scrape_config will not forward logs from a particular pod, but another scrape_config might.
Many of the scrape_configs read labels from __meta_kubernetes_* meta-labels, assign them to intermediate labels
such as __service__ based on a few different logic, possibly drop the processing if the __service__ was empty
and finally set visible labels (such as "job") based on the __service__ label.
such as \_\_service\_\_ based on a few different logic, possibly drop the processing if the \_\_service\_\_ was empty
and finally set visible labels (such as "job") based on the \_\_service\_\_ label.
In general, all of the default Promtail scrape_configs do the following:
* They read pod logs from under /var/log/pods/$1/*.log.
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