AWS Log Management and Analytics | Datadog

AWS Observability Pipelines and Log Management

Enhance visibility into your entire AWS environment with an intelligent, cost-effective solution that gives you complete control over your log data from collection to analysis.

1,000+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

Product Benefits

Investigate and Troubleshoot AWS Issues Faster

  • Discover log patterns and errors rapidly without manually reading individual log files
  • Visualize and explore collected logs using intuitive, facet-driven navigation designed for outage responders
  • See log data in context with auto-tagging and metric correlation across your entire AWS stack
  • Pivot from logs to APM traces with a single click for complete incident resolution

Take Complete Control of Your Log Data Pipeline

  • Optimize logs on-prem before routing to external vendors
  • Filter, enrich, and route logs intelligently - send security logs to SIEM, operational logs to archives, and critical alerts to your team
  • Dual-ship logs seamlessly during vendor migrations or multi-tool evaluations without disrupting workflows
  • Future-proof your observability stack with vendor-agnostic data processing and flexible routing options
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Efficiently Store & Analyze High-Volume AWS Logs

  • Store real-time application logs in Standard Tier and high-volume security, network, operational logs in cost-effective Flex Tier
  • Adjust retention and querying capacity independently to fulfill compliance requirements without overpaying
  • Archive all logs for compliance at $0.10/GB with instant rehydration capabilities for investigations
  • Monitor ingested logs in real-time with Live Tail for immediate visibility into critical issues
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Manage Costs Without Sacrificing Visibility

  • Pay only for what you index - process and route all logs while indexing only business-critical data
  • Reduce pipeline costs with intelligent filtering - eliminate noisy logs before they reach expensive downstream tools
  • Optimize storage costs automatically by routing high-volume audit logs to archives and keeping operational data accessible
  • Scale observability budgets predictably with quota controls and volume management at the pipeline level
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Streamline AWS Operations with Intelligent Automation

  • Auto-discover AWS services like S3, EBS, ELB, and ElastiCache in seconds with 900+ vendor-backed integrations
  • Create real-time dashboards with drag-and-drop capabilities spanning logs, metrics, and traces
  • Generate metrics from logs automatically within the UI to reduce data ingestion costs
  • Build and deploy log pipelines with templates for common AWS use cases using an intuitive point-and-click interface
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Proactive Monitoring and Alerting for AWS Environments

  • Eliminate false positives with smart alerting that accounts for daily, weekly, and seasonal AWS usage patterns
  • Prevent outages proactively by alerting on metric forecasts and anomaly detection
  • Automatically detect issues with Watchdog's AI-powered outlier and error detection across your AWS infrastructure
  • Create composite alerts using boolean logic to reduce alert fatigue and focus on critical incidents

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance for AWS

  • Maintain data residency compliance by redacting logs within your AWS environment before external routing
  • Redact sensitive data automatically with 90+ out-of-the-box scanning rules for PCI, GDPR, HIPAA compliance
  • Audit log access and modifications with complete pipeline monitoring and change tracking
  • Secure multi-destination routing to ensure security logs reach SIEM tools while operational data stays in cost-effective storage
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