diff --git a/observability/logging/log_storage/about-log-storage.adoc b/observability/logging/log_storage/about-log-storage.adoc index 25257ccec9..e906087a71 100644 --- a/observability/logging/log_storage/about-log-storage.adoc +++ b/observability/logging/log_storage/about-log-storage.adoc @@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ You can use an internal Loki or Elasticsearch log store on your cluster for stor [id="log-storage-overview-types"] == Log storage types -Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system offered as an alternative to Elasticsearch as a log store for the {logging}. - -Elasticsearch indexes incoming log records completely during ingestion. Loki only indexes a few fixed labels during ingestion and defers more complex parsing until after the logs have been stored. This means Loki can collect logs more quickly. +include::snippets/logging-loki-statement-snip.adoc[] include::modules/cluster-logging-about-es-logstore.adoc[leveloffset=+2] diff --git a/snippets/logging-loki-statement-snip.adoc b/snippets/logging-loki-statement-snip.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f8eae72810 --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/logging-loki-statement-snip.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +// Text snippet included in the following assemblies: +// +// +// Text snippet included in the following modules: +// +// +:_mod-docs-content-type: SNIPPET + +Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system offered as a GA log store for {logging} {for} that can be visualized with the OpenShift {ObservabilityShortName} UI. The Loki configuration provided by OpenShift {logging-uc} is a short-term log store designed to enable users to perform fast troubleshooting with the collected logs. For that purpose, the {logging} {for} configuration of Loki has short-term storage, and is optimized for very recent queries. For long-term storage or queries over a long time period, users should look to log stores external to their cluster. + +Elasticsearch indexes incoming log records completely during ingestion. Loki indexes only a few fixed labels during ingestion and defers more complex parsing until after the logs have been stored. This means Loki can collect logs more quickly. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/snippets/logging6x-loki-statement-snip.adoc b/snippets/logging6x-loki-statement-snip.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ea3f23992 --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/logging6x-loki-statement-snip.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +// Text snippet included in the following assemblies: +// * observability/logging/log_storage/about-log-storage.adoc +// +// Text snippet included in the following modules: +// +// +:_mod-docs-content-type: SNIPPET + +Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system offered as a GA log store for {logging} {for} that can be visualized with the OpenShift {ObservabilityShortName} UI. The Loki configuration provided by OpenShift {logging-uc} is a short-term log store designed to enable users to perform fast troubleshooting with the collected logs. For that purpose, the {logging} {for} configuration of Loki has short-term storage, and is optimized for very recent queries. For long-term storage or queries over a long time period, users should look to log stores external to their cluster. \ No newline at end of file