Datadog Log Management | Datadog

Modern Log Management & Analytics

Easily search and analyze your logs at any scale, on any budget. Quickly troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and investigate security threats with rich context.

Datadog Log Management

Why Datadog?

No Custom Query Language Required

Leverage unified tagging to filter and search anything easily — no training needed


Enterprise Scale & Reliability

Whatever your scale or use cases, take advantage of our SaaS platform that’s always prepared to handle more


750+ Vendor-Backed Integrations

Datadog offers wide coverage across any technology, with support and log processing templates provided by Datadog


Logging Without Limits™

Simple, but powerful techniques for prioritizing logs and staying in budget–without manual backups or dropping data


750+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

Product Features

Investigate and Troubleshoot Issues Faster

  • Search, filter, and analyze logs on the fly—no complex query language required
  • Automatically detect unanticipated outliers, anomalies, and log errors without the need to read every log file
  • Visualize and explore collected logs using an intuitive, facet-driven navigation and powerful log analytics
  • Respond to only the most important issues with composite alerts based on boolean logic

Efficiently Store & Analyze High Volume Logs

  • Store real-time application logs in Standard Tier and high-volume security, network, operational logs, and more in Flex Tier
  • Utilize Flex Logs to adjust your retention and querying capacity independently, fulfilling even more use cases than with standard retention
  • Maximize storage capacity and explore all log types seamlessly with the Log Explorer's tailored querying capabilities, enabling both simple and complex investigations
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Easily Manage Your Logs with an Intuitive Platform

  • See log data in context with auto-tagging and metric correlation
  • Create real-time log analytics dashboards in seconds with Datadog’s drag-and-drop capabilities
  • Pivot from logs to the corresponding APM traces with a single click
  • Jump directly from logs to triggered security signals without switching tools or contexts

Control Costs without Sacrificing Visibility

  • Collect, process, inspect, and archive all your logs for only $.10/GB; monitor all your ingested logs in real time with Live Tail
  • Only pay to index the logs you need
  • Quickly access archived logs dating back to any time period with the ability to rehydrate logs into indexes in a few simple clicks
  • Support audits or investigations by quickly accessing archived logs without paying for active storage

Scalable Log Management for Every Team and Every Stack

  • Manage access to your log data with granular controls that can be scoped to fit your organization’s structures and roles
  • Scale with confidence—send and process millions of logs per minute or petabytes per month seamlessly
  • Use fine-grained controls to prioritize high-value logs and stay within budget
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Protect Sensitive Data within Your Logs

  • Prevent security breaches using a modern data compliance strategy with the Sensitive Data Scanner
  • Scrub sensitive data from your logs with Datadog's predefined or custom scanners
  • Record and access all user activity on the Datadog platform with audit logs
  • Easily report on your company’s sensitive data management with searchable tags on risk level, data source, and priority

Analyze security logs for real-time threat detection and response

  • Automate threat detection with our built-in SIEM developed and maintained by our in-house security research team and correlate activity across alerts
  • Identify common threats or attacks within the MITRE ATT&CK® framework ensuring robust security coverage
  • Customize rules effortlessly with our easy-to-use query language, tailored to meet your security needs
  • Use Log Explorer and Log Workspaces to query and visualize security logs as tables, charts, and more to detect suspicious user and entity activities and patterns

Real results from Datadog customers

12B Log events each day, managed cost-effectively
EA DICE
<2 min Mean time to resolution (MTTR)
CITIZENS BANK
50% Cost savings on cloud resources
TRAVELSUPERMARKET

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