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Log error to stderr

Improve documentation based on what I learned when I did loki setup.

* Explain that api needs the start parameter set if you want to see logs older than one hour
* Explain that S3 and DynamoDB can also use instance roles in EC2
* Add couple of hints how to debug Promtail
* Add documentation how the Promtail prometheus scrape_configs work

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Add dashboard example

adding labels design doc

Fix serviceaccount error

remove logcli config part

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Signed-off-by: Steven Sheehy <ssheehy@firescope.com>

Fixing lagging alert to also catch when the read_bytes is past the end of the file.
Adding an alert to let us know if we are missing tailing of any files.

Update logcli doc

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Since kinpin.v2 not support use config like this, remove them.

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Add health check

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Change hpcloud tailer library to poll mode to workaround bugs in the event driven code within the library
Had to rework tests with some waits for messages because polling is slower
There are several longer sleeps in the promtail_test which are not ideal and have been marked with FIXME to remove once we have a better solution

Add help about how to get metrics

Added a flag --no-labels to skip printing labels in the output from l…

Add comment about external_labels

docs: link to grafana documentation for loki provisioning

add miss promtail client config option

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