LogQL Cheat Sheet

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Loki Query Language reference for log aggregation and analysis.

Query Types #

Type	Returns	Example
Log queries	Log lines	`{job="nginx"}`
Metric queries	Numeric values	`rate({job="nginx"}[5m])`

# Single label
{job="nginx"}

# Multiple labels (AND)
{job="nginx", env="production"}

# Multiple values (OR - use regex)
{job=~"nginx|apache"}

Equality

# Exact match
{job="nginx"}

# Multiple exact matches
{job="nginx", namespace="default"}

Inequality

# Not equal
{job!="nginx"}

# Exclude namespace
{namespace!="kube-system"}

Regex

# Match pattern
{job=~"nginx.*"}

# Match multiple
{job=~"nginx|apache"}

# Negative regex
{job!~"test.*"}

Chain operations to filter and parse logs: