When using Grafana Agent with a logging backend other than Loki, we need to inform that backend about the payloads being compressed using snappy. Loki knows this is the case implicitly, but a third-party won't.
Solution
Add a Content-Encoding header to all outgoing requests.
Context
This is useful when integrating with, for instance, Vector or Logstash, as they otherwise have no way of knowing about the encoding/compression.
Testing Instructions
Release Notes
Properly advertise snappy compression when using the cloud integrator
Issue
When using Grafana Agent with a logging backend other than Loki, we need to inform that backend about the payloads being compressed using snappy. Loki knows this is the case implicitly, but a third-party won't.
Solution
Add a
Content-Encodingheader to all outgoing requests.Context
This is useful when integrating with, for instance, Vector or Logstash, as they otherwise have no way of knowing about the encoding/compression.
Testing Instructions
Release Notes
Properly advertise snappy compression when using the cloud integrator