promtail: Fix title and image path on `logrotation` doc (#8208)

Signed-off-by: Kaviraj <kavirajkanagaraj@gmail.com>

**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This fixes
1. Missing UI link to the side panel
2. Image paths


![Screenshot_2023-01-19_10-04-58](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3735252/213400320-66061f0d-dbbc-4024-a666-f2b0830f2227.png)

![Screenshot_2023-01-19_10-04-40](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3735252/213400323-b786765a-4c5d-4b23-ad98-70cec030a202.png)


**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**:
Fixes #NA

**Special notes for your reviewer**:

**Checklist**
- [x] Reviewed the
[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
guide (**required**)
- [x] Documentation added

Signed-off-by: Kaviraj <kavirajkanagaraj@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Danny Kopping <danny.kopping@grafana.com>
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      docs/sources/clients/promtail/logrotation.md

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title: Promtail and Log Rotation
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# Promtail and Log Rotation # Promtail and Log Rotation
## Why does log rotation matters? ## Why does log rotation matters?
At any point in time, there may be three processes working on a log file as shown in the image below. At any point in time, there may be three processes working on a log file as shown in the image below.
![block_diagram](./logrotation-components.png) ![block_diagram](../logrotation-components.png)
1. Appender - A writer that keeps appending to a log file. This can be your application or some system daemons like Syslog, Docker log driver or Kubelet, etc. 1. Appender - A writer that keeps appending to a log file. This can be your application or some system daemons like Syslog, Docker log driver or Kubelet, etc.
2. Tailer - A reader that reads log lines as they are appended, for example, agents like Promtail. 2. Tailer - A reader that reads log lines as they are appended, for example, agents like Promtail.
@ -25,10 +28,10 @@ In both cases, after log rotation, all new log lines are written to the original
These two methods of log rotation are shown in the following images. These two methods of log rotation are shown in the following images.
### Copy and Truncate ### Copy and Truncate
![block_diagram](./logrotation-copy-and-truncate.png) ![block_diagram](../logrotation-copy-and-truncate.png)
### Rename and Create ### Rename and Create
![block_diagram](./logrotation-rename-and-create.png) ![block_diagram](../logrotation-rename-and-create.png)
Both types of log rotation seem to give the same result. However, there are some subtle differences. Both types of log rotation seem to give the same result. However, there are some subtle differences.

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