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 # Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs.
 
-Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.  It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
+Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/).  It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
 
 Compared to other log aggregation systems, Loki: