Log Management & Analytics

We want to know everything about each one of our viewer's experience, which means a lot of logs. At peak it is 150 million logs per minute—we can’t possibly index everything we ingest, hence Logging without Limits™.

KARTIK GARG

DIRECTOR - CLOUD & PLATFORM ENGINEERING, HULU

Datadog Log Management has changed the way we approach log ingestion and usage, allowing multiple teams to sustainably manage very large volumes of logs.

AARON MITTI

CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT AT GE TRANSPORTATION, A WABTEC COMPANY

Datadog’s ability to filter the exact logs we need, and retain what’s most valuable for specific time periods, has enabled us to cover everything within budget, allowing us to find and fix performance issues faster.

PRAKASH JANAKIRAMAN

CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF ARCHITECT, NEXTDOOR

Datadog has been instrumental in reducing our time to incident resolution. Datadog exposes a great deal of valuable data about our services and environments, to the right stakeholders, at all points of our software development life cycle.

Jeff Webb

Engineering Manager, Rose Rocket

Datadog Log Management unifies logs, metrics, and traces in a single view, giving you rich context for analyzing log data. Whether you’re troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, or investigating security threats, Logging without Limits™ provides a cost-effective, scalable approach to centralized log management, so you can get complete visibility across your stack.

Rapid troubleshooting and analytics with no querying language

Search, filter, and analyze logs on the fly—no complex query language required
Analyze logs with out-of-the-box interactive dashboards and drag-and-drop data visualizations
Jump start exploration with Log Patterns, which intelligently surfaces trends in log activity
Drill deeper with Pattern Inspector to understand at a glance the distribution of values within each pattern
For time sensitive issues, automatically identify Log Anomalies using Watchdog Insights

Process, enrich, and route all of your logs from your entire tech stack in a central location.

Process, enrich, and route all your logs from one control panel

Leverage out-of-the-box log processing pipelines for 200+ common technologies
Build consistent, structured datasets from your raw log data, no matter the source
Enrich ingested logs with custom reference data to add more context and make them more actionable
Centralize routing of processed logs to 3rd party destinations such as your data lake or SIEM vendor using Log Forwarding

Processing logs with out of the box pipeline templates

Logging without Limits™

Ingest, Live Tail, and archive everything. Decide which logs are most useful to retain (and for how long); change your mind anytime
Generate metrics from all logs (regardless of whether they're indexed) to track trends and KPIs
Rehydrate logs from your compressed archives and access them in Datadog to support audits or investigations

Seamless correlation with full context in an integrated platform

Pivot from logs to the corresponding APM traces with a single click for full context
Jump directly from logs to triggered security signals without switching tools or contexts
Easily navigate from dashboards to associated logs for faster troubleshooting

Seamlessly pivot from logs, traces, and metrics in a single view.

Scalable log management for every team and every stack

Manage access to your log data with granular RBAC 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
Supports PCI and HIPAA compliance