Name: Datadog BYOC Log Management
Brand: Datadog

Feature Overview

Datadog Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Log Management lets you keep your logs in your own environment while using the Datadog platform for querying, analytics, and investigations. Built for modern AI applications, AI labs, and large-scale data environments, it runs a high-performance, petabyte-scale log engine in your infrastructure, giving you full control over costs, scale, and compliance. Meet data residency requirements while seamlessly correlating logs with metrics and traces in Datadog, and scale efficiently with pricing aligned to your business needs.

Unify Your Observability Without Sacrificing Visibility

Correlate logs with metrics and traces, regardless of where data resides, using Datadog’s native platform
Gain a consistent, easy-to-use search and analytics experience while keeping data in your own environment
Unify workflows with shared dashboards, alerts, and investigation paths, eliminating context switching
Use Bits AI across all your logs, even when they remain in your own environment

Control Costs as Log Volumes Grow to Petabyte Scale

Control logging costs, keeping spend predictable even as AI-driven log volumes grow
Filter, enrich, and route logs before ingestion to reduce low-value logs and prioritize business critical applications
Independently scale compute and storage to handle growing volumes without complex infrastructure management
Store logs in low-cost object storage with compatibility for OpenTelemetry (OTel) and OCSF formats

Support Data Residency and Compliance Requirements

Retain logs entirely within your own infrastructure in regions like India, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brazil, South Africa, and Canada while preserving unified search and correlation across environments
Keep regulated data in-country or within designated environments to meet mandates such as HIPAA and GDPR without duplicating tooling
Discover and manage sensitive data such as PII and PCI with built-in detection rules
Retain logs long-term within your own object storage to meet compliance requirements while avoiding high SaaS storage costs and reducing data exposure risk

Simplify Log Operations from Deployment to Scale

Operate logging in your own environment with a centralized control plane that delivers automation and governance across clusters.
Gain visibility into cluster health and performance from the Datadog UI, reducing operational overhead across clusters
Ingest and normalize logs with built-in pipelines and integrations, reducing custom engineering and ongoing maintenance
Normalize logs using Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), Splunk CIM, and custom mappings to reduce schema fragmentation across teams and tools

Retain and Analyze Security Logs

Build your own security data lake to centralize, enrich, and standardize logs for historical threat analysis
Retain logs in OCSF format for as long as necessary to meet compliance requirement and query them in real time for threat hunting
Add security context such as GeoIP and threat intelligence to accelerate detection and response
Control costs with out-of-the-box packs for sources like Akamai, Cloudflare, VPC Flow, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and Windows