Grafana Loki is a modern log database that has different design tradeoffs compared to traditional logs databases. Loki indexes the metadata only, whereas traditional systems require you to index everything. This makes Loki easy, cheap, and reliable to use and operate at PetaByte scale.

I’m one of the core maintainers of Grafana Loki open source project for more than 2 years. Grafana Loki is particularly interesting because of cloud native nature and different design tradeoff with