Notable changes:
- New Internal Server and TLS TLS can now be configured everywhere and there is an internal server to allow ring, memberlist, and readiness handlers to continue to work without TLS.
- Better Support for Azure Blob Storage thanks to the ability to use Azure's Service Principal Credentials.
- Logs can now be pushed from the Loki canary so you don't have to rely on a scraping service to use the canary.
- Additional label_format fields timestamp and line.
- New embedded cache which is an in-process cache system that runs loki without the need for an external cache (like memcached, redis, etc).
- New HTTP endpoint for Ingester shutdown that will also delete the ring token.
- Faster label queries thanks to new parallization.
- Introducing Stream Sharding an experimental new feature to help deal with very large streams.
Promtail
- support for max stream limit
- config reload endpoint / signal
- compressed file support
- lambda-promtail now supports Kinesis data stream events
- matches for the journal reader
- basic tracing support