MSI Package for Promtail

[gmintoco]

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Now that there is eventlog support for loki generating windows MSI packages for distribution would be a huge plus :). We are currently struggling to automate the distribution of promtail and having proper MSI packages would make this a log easier. (IE. Puts promtail in the right spot, allows configuring flags, sets up a service resource, creates firewall exception, sets up logging to eventlog.

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MSI packages (or at least the ability to easily generate them) that install promtail as a system service.

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Packaging it as an MSI ourselves/converting to a service - these solutions are typically really clunky and we have be trial and erroring a few so far.

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The promtheus windows exporter does something similar here: https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/tree/v0.16.0/installer

I had a go at generating promtail MSI installers but couldn't get the service started unfortunately (There is no way to see debug output that I know without having a --log.format option for windows eventlog support or supporting logging to a file, I can't work out how to get stdout from a service)

[gmintoco]

I realise this is similar to: #52 however that issue references all packages and seems more oriented for linux (as it was created when promtail didn't really have windows support as far as I can tell) it also isn't very specific as to the kind of package or what it should contain.

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