From e230827c062745d1cdeacb80f019826b1d993174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bergquist <carl.bergquist@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 13:53:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] more detailed error message for loki

if grafana tries to access loki without promtail running
it will return an error.
---
 public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
index ebe1e226a75..ebbe6bb4b56 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ export default class LokiDatasource {
         }
         return {
           status: 'error',
-          message: 'Data source connected, but no labels received. Verify that Loki is configured properly.',
+          message:
+            'Data source connected, but no labels received. Verify that Loki and Promtail is configured properly.',
         };
       })
       .catch(err => {