**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Updates the Helm Charts documentation to include `backend` target
Fixes broken links
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**:
Fixes#11189
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
I walked through this with @monodot earlier today.
Co-authored-by: Michel Hollands <42814411+MichelHollands@users.noreply.github.com>
This Helm Chart installation runs the Grafana Loki cluster within a Kubernetes cluster.
This Helm Chart deploys Grafana Loki on Kubernetes.
If object storge is configured, this chart configures Loki to run `read` and `write` targets in a [scalable mode]({{< relref "../../../../get-started/deployment-modes#simple-scalable" >}}), highly available architecture (3 replicas of each) designed to work with AWS S3 object storage. It will also configure meta-monitoring of metrics and logs.
This chart configures Loki to run `read`, `write`, and `backend` targets in a [scalable mode]({{< relref "../../../../get-started/deployment-modes#simple-scalable" >}}), highly available architecture designed to work with AWS S3 object storage. The chart also supports self-monitoring or meta-monitoring by deploying Grafana Agent to monitor Loki itself, by scraping its metrics and logs.
It is not possible to run the scalable mode with the `filesystem` storage.
The default Helm chart deploys the following components:
- Read component (3 replicas)
- Write component (3 replicas)
- Backend component (3 replicas)
- Loki Canary (1 DaemonSet)
- Gateway (1 NGINX replica)
- Minio (optional, if `minio.enabled=true`)
- Grafana Agent Operator + Grafana Agent (1 DaemonSet) - configured to monitor the Loki application.
**Before you begin:**
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It is not recommended to run scalable mode with `filesystem` storage.
**Prerequisites**
- Helm 3 or above. See [Installing Helm](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/).
- A running Kubernetes cluster.
- A Prometheus operator installation in case meta-monitoring should be used.
- Optionally a Memcached deployment for better performance. Consult the [caching section]({{< relref "../../../../operations/caching" >}}) on how to configure Memcached.
- (Optional) A Memcached deployment for better query performance. For information on configuring Memcached, refer to [caching section]({{< relref "../../../../operations/caching" >}}).
**To deploy Loki in simple scalable mode:**
**To deploy Loki in scalable mode:**
1. Add [Grafana's chart repository](https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts) to Helm: