Loki: remove live option for logs panel #19533
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davkal
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@davkal We should probably also change the log panel docs too as they mention the live option. Otherwise looks good. |
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Hmm also what will happen if user sets something live and then updates? Probably no way to turn it back off, only recreating the whole panel. |
Another good point, I'm happy to live with this for now. |
…uery * grafana/master: (26 commits) Loki: remove live option for logs panel (grafana#19533) Chore: Updates to 6.4.0 stable (grafana#19528) CloudWatch: Add ap-east-1 to hard-coded region lists (grafana#19523) ChangeLog: Release 6.4.0 Stable (grafana#19526) Docs: Add notice about plugins that need updating (grafana#19519) Panels: Skip re-rendering panel/visualisation in loading state (grafana#19518) Docs: LDAP Debug View documentation (grafana#19513) Docs: reports feature (grafana#19472) SeriesOverrides: Fixed issue with color picker Build: Fix building when $LDFLAGS is set (grafana#19509) API: Add `createdAt` and `updatedAt` to api/users/lookup (grafana#19496) Fix logs panel image path Logs: Publish logs panel (grafana#19504) Explore: Update broken link to logql docs (grafana#19510) Chore: Remove console.log (grafana#19412) Refactor: Split LogRow component (grafana#19471) Build: Upgrade go to 1.12.10 (grafana#19499) CLI: Fix version selection for plugin install (grafana#19498) Upgrade grafana-plugin-model (grafana#19438) grafana-ui: Moves slate types from devDependencies to dependencies (grafana#19470) ...
* Loki: remote live option for logs panel * Remove live from logs panel docs (cherry picked from commit 942f702)
* Loki: remote live option for logs panel * Remove live from logs panel docs (cherry picked from commit 942f702)
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The live feature was awesome, any plan integrating this again? :) |
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I'm forced to stay at 6.4.1 because of this |
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The live feature is still available in Explore. It was a bit unstable in logs panels so we'd like to learn a bit more about the problems. |
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Ah ok I see. I only used it through Grafana Explore and it always worked fine, never used the live feature in a Panel. I thought this ticket would also remove this from Explore. |
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@davkal Biggest issues for me are the panel seemingly losing connection at times and not automatically scrolling to new logs when display order is in descending mode |
* Loki: remote live option for logs panel * Remove live from logs panel docs (cherry picked from commit 942f702)
The live tailing option was removed with grafana#19533 per some outstanding issues (grafana#19532 and grafana#19530). It should no be mentioned in the docs as a feature. grafana#19533
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The Grafana docs still say this is possible. Pulled my hair out looking for the option. Just submitted PR #22704 to update docs. Not sure if this is the place to discuss use cases, but we would definitely like this back. It's part of why I set up Loki in the first place. To the comment that it will be out of sync with the rest of the dashboard, that's expected. But if I have a realtime metrics board refreshing every 1s, with a grafana log panel by some other metrics, I can watch the CPU use of loki spike to meet the demand. It instead I do a live tail in explore, the cpu use of loki is practically 0 and i get my live tail. TLDR its still useful for realtime dashes and hope it can be brought back. |
The live option for Loki in the logs panels caused a couple of issues:
This PR is a quick-fix to prevent live panel related issues from impacting too many people.
Speaking to the Loki team, they don't see a use for a live option in the dashboards to begin with, since it will be out of sync with the rest of the dashboard.