Datadog Kubernetes Log Management

Kubernetes Log Management & Analytics

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

Product Benefits

Investigate and Troubleshoot Kubernetes Issues Faster

Discover log patterns and errors rapidly without the need to investigate and read every individual log file
Visualize and explore collected logs using an intuitive, facet-driven navigation designed for outage responders
See log data in context with auto-tagging and metric correlation
Pivot from logs to the corresponding APM traces with a single click

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

Easily Manage Your Kubernetes Logs with an Intuitive Platform

Analyze all your Kubernetes logs with just a few simple clicks and eliminate the need to learn a complex, custom query language
Generate metrics from all your ingested logs right within the UI
Create real-time log analytics dashboards in seconds with Datadog’s drag-and-drop capabilities

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
Significantly reduce the costs associated with the storage of high-volume logs necessary for audit and compliance purposes

Monitor Your Containerized Environment in a Single Screen

Analyze the health of all your containers by pod, namespace, and node distributed across any cloud environment
Avoid resource contention and deficiency by drilling into individual containers running hot with 1 click
Automatically collect, monitor, and visualize high-granularity metrics from all your containers at 15s. granularity for 15 months

Manage High-Scale K8s Environments with Confidence

Enable low impact monitoring of 10,000+ nodes with the cluster agent
Optimize horizontal auto-scaling by connecting Datadog to your HPA and collecting request rate, latency, and available network bandwidth
Gain visibility into container orchestration and easily manage Kubernetes pods over or under-allocating available resources via the real-time live container view and auto-generated container map
Improve operational costs and reduce excess capacity based on high-granularity historical data