Short answer: Loki gzips query_range when frontend.compress_responses is true and the client sends Accept-Encoding: gzip. On 3.4.2 the help text for -querier.compress-http-responses says that default is true. It is not the value the process runs with. RegisterFlags then registers -frontend.support-parquet-encoding on that same bool, with default false, so gzip…
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