#observability

Field Note · Jun 5, 2026 · Colten Anderson

Promtail is end-of-life: your Loki shipper just lost its support floor

If Promtail still ships your logs to Loki, the agent reading every log file on the host has had no upstream remediation path since March 2, 2026. The migration to Alloy is mostly mechanical, except for the one file that decides whether you get duplicates or a gap.