Pipeline stages tooling

[cyriltovena]

The YAML configuration is quite hard to get right and the feedback loop is horrible.

It would great to have a tool that validates, lint and explains this configuration.

Cherry on the top that would be neat to be able to test with some real log line.

I’m thinking about building a small web ui container, we could also host it at Grafana so our users wouldn’t need to use docker at all. But first we should simply promtail as a cli.

/cc @slim-bean

[slim-bean]

one version of this I've seen with other tools and would like to do with promtail is to run the binary with a flag to your config file and something like -stdin where it doesn't tail files but just parses log lines from stdin and prints out how it would have been processed

[slim-bean]

when we figure out a Loki website I think having a hosted config validator as you describe would be fantastic

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[pracucci]

Cherry on the top that would be neat to be able to test with some real log line.

@cyriltovena May the experiment done in https://github.com/pracucci/lokitool be of any interest to be backported to this repo?

[cyriltovena]

Yeah for sure

[pracucci]

@cyriltovena How would you name the tool once backported to the grafana/loki repo? Should be integrated into logcli or as a separate tool?

[v-stickykeys]

Cherry on the top that would be neat to be able to test with some real log line.

@cyriltovena May the experiment done in https://github.com/pracucci/lokitool be of any interest to be backported to this repo?

I would also be happy to help with adding a vscode plugin for this (if that is of interest)

[cyriltovena]

Cherry on the top that would be neat to be able to test with some real log line.

@cyriltovena May the experiment done in https://github.com/pracucci/lokitool be of any interest to be backported to this repo?

I would also be happy to help with adding a vscode plugin for this (if that is of interest)

Sure is !

Promtail now support --dry-run so you could use that.