For us, it’s all about getting the right insights and maximizing the return on our log assets. Datadog Flex Logs not only provides us with the flexibility to retain any type of log, but also accommodates our logging workloads and querying all as part of an integrated platform experience.

Rachit Nandwani

Engineering Manager Observability, Square (Block, Inc.)

Datadog Flex Logs streamlined our log correlation with metrics, helping our engineers troubleshoot production issues faster. Its decoupled storage and compute efficiently met diverse log monitoring needs, reducing costs and accelerating business growth in the region.

Jose Dalino Jr.

Head of Engineering, Traveloka

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

Feature Overview

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, Live Search, flexibly store, 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 log archives and access them in Datadog to support audits or investigations
Perform simple or complex log queries directly on Flex Logs in Datadog, including extended retention options

Flexibly store all logs at any retention and querying capacity

Leverage Flex Logs to adjust your retention and querying capacity independently, fulfilling even more use cases than standard retention
Meet your budget and users’ query needs while reducing the number of places logs need to be stored
Maximize full storage and investigation into any log type
Make both simple and complex queries on all stored logs with the full capabilities of the Log Explorer, which is purpose-built for querying logs

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

Track and understand your log management volumes

400+ Detection Rules to protect against cloud threats

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