Promtail - Add config.file location URL capability

[vincent-gou]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Promtail client can only read config.file from local storage. I got promtail deployed on different servers that i can't manage directly. I can't find any information on that subject.

Describe the solution you'd like
Get promtail ability to read config.file from an URL.
I use this solution for telegraf agent for example:
telegraf --config "https://xxxx.domain.com/telegraf?client=52410725-813e-4a87-9457-ff09fe7abext&application=aaaaaa&os=windows&host=srv-yyyyy&editor=xxxx&app_component=back-full"

Describe alternatives you've considered
none for now.

Additional context
Thanks

[slim-bean]

hey @vincent-gou there is currently no support for this I'm afraid, we did discuss it a long time ago but it was never really a priority and actually haven't really seen any requests for it until yours.

I think this makes sense, some consideration would be versioning the config file as config options can change.

/cc @rfratto not sure if you've considered this yet with the Grafana Agent?

[rfratto]

I haven't considered it yet, but I agree it makes sense and I'd like to eventually see it added to the Agent.

[vincent-gou]

Ok thanks all for your feedback.

I think that i have a workaround by downloading on each promtail reload or restart (via custom script) config.file.
If you decide to go further with this maybe issue #16 may be interesting to implement.

Best regards

Vincent

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