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title: "Promtail"
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Homepage: [https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/](https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/)
Docker image: [Promtail](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/promtail)
Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki instance or Grafana Cloud. It is usually deployed to every machine that has applications needed to be monitored.
It primarily:
- Discovers targets
- Attaches labels to log streams
- Pushes them to the Loki instance.
## Usage
Set `promtail_enabled: true` in your `inventories/<your_inventory>/group_vars/nas.yml` file.
To see what Promtail is doing (and what containers it has discovered for tailing), visit the web interface at at [http://ansible_nas_host_or_ip:9080](http://ansible_nas_host_or_ip:9080).