The api logs every request, so k8s liveness/readiness probes on
/api/health/ and vmagent's /metrics scrape drowned Loki in 2xx access
logs. Alloy now drops successful probe/scrape access lines at ingest
(loki.process stage.drop) — a non-2xx health check, or one logged
above info level, still matches nothing and is kept.
Also hardens Alloy's read-offset store: moved /tmp/alloy from an
emptyDir to a hostPath and set loki.source.file tail_from_end=true, so
a pod restart resumes from the saved offset instead of re-reading log
files from the start — which made Loki 400-reject the now-too-old
entries ("entry too far behind") and stalled shipping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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