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title: "Monitoring | Grafana Enterprise Logs documentation"
description: "Describes monitoring options for Loki deployed with Helm, including built-in Prometheus Operator resources and the recommended Kubernetes monitoring Helm chart."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Monitoring

## Built-in monitoring (Prometheus Operator)

The Loki Helm chart can render ServiceMonitors, PrometheusRule recording rules, PrometheusRule alerts, and Grafana dashboards from the upstream [loki-mixin](https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/main/production/loki-mixin):

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```yaml
monitoring:
  serviceMonitor:
    enabled: true
  rules:
    enabled: true   # recording rules only
  alerts:
    enabled: true   # alert rules (separate since chart 18.0.0)
  dashboards:
    enabled: true
```

All monitoring resources are disabled by default.

As of chart 18.0.0, alert rules are managed under `monitoring.alerts`, not `monitoring.rules` (which now controls recording rules only). The release-identifying metric label is `app_instance` by default (`monitoring.appInstanceLabelName`).

For details on available monitoring keys, refer to the [Helm Chart Reference](/docs/loki/latest/setup/install/helm/reference/).

### Deploying dashboards via the Grafana Operator

Instead of ConfigMaps, the chart can render `GrafanaDashboard` custom resources for the [Grafana Operator](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator) project. When you run an operator-managed Grafana instance, this lets that instance import the Loki dashboards automatically, without a sidecar watching ConfigMaps.

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```yaml
monitoring:
  dashboards:
    enabled: true
    grafanaOperator:
      enabled: true
      instanceSelector:
        matchLabels:
          dashboards: "grafana"
      folder: Loki
```

`instanceSelector` is a label selector that the Grafana Operator matches against the labels on your Grafana custom resource; an empty selector (the default) matches every Grafana instance. `folder`, `folderUID`, and `folderRef` all place the dashboards into a folder in Grafana, so set only one of them.

For the full list of `monitoring.dashboards.grafanaOperator` keys, including `annotations`, `labels`, and `resyncPeriod`, refer to the [Helm Chart Reference](/docs/loki/latest/setup/install/helm/reference/).

## Recommended: Kubernetes monitoring Helm chart

> Warning
> 
> We no longer recommend using the meta-monitoring Helm chart to monitor Loki. The former `monitoring.selfMonitoring` / Grafana Agent integration was removed in chart 9.0.0. To consolidate monitoring efforts into one Helm chart, Grafana Labs recommends using the [Kubernetes monitoring Helm chart](https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm). Instructions for setting up the Kubernetes monitoring Helm chart can be found under [Manage](/docs/loki/latest/operations/meta-monitoring/).