Feature Overview

Unify all your logs, metrics, and traces in one interface for faster analysis and deeper understanding without extra cost or complexity. With complete visibility across your stack, you can easily troubleshoot, optimize performance, and stop security threats—and improve business outcomes.

Easily analyze logs with no complex query language.

Start fast with out-of-the-box interactive dashboards and drag-and-drop visualizations.
Identify trends instantly by using Log Patterns to automatically group similar log messages.
Drill deeper, faster with Pattern Inspector to reveal underlying data to troubleshoot at a glance.
Get AI-powered insights from your built-in Watchdog, with automated alerts, insights, and root-cause analysis.

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

Centralize processing and routing in a cinch.

Use one control panel to process and build structured datasets from all raw log data, from any source.
Easily add more context by enriching ingested logs with custom reference data.
Connect with external destinations to securely send logs to your data lake or SIEM vendor using Log Forwarding.

Processing logs with out of the box pipeline templates

Start Logging without Limits™

Control archiving with flexible storage for Ingest, Live Tail, and Live Search, so you decide which logs to retain, and for how long.
Easily track trends and KPIs by generating metrics from all logs, even if they’re not indexed.
Relieve audit anxiety by rehydrating logs from your compressed archives and accessing them in Datadog.

Logging without Limits™: value from every log

Store and analyze logs in a snap with Flex Logs.

Tame high-volume logs with Flex Logs by adjusting your retention and querying capacity independently.
Rein in costs, increase visibility by storing and searching logs in one place, without the need for extra storage.
Consolidate logs with instant tracking of configuration changes across mullti-cloud environments.
Query quicker with Log Explorer, your home base to search and filter, visualize and export logs.

See all logs in context on one platform.

Correlate logs and APM traces in a single click for easy analysis and faster troubleshooting.
Secure without tool switching by jumping directly from logs to triggered security signals in context.
End navigation nightmares with dashboards that show associated logs to quickly pinpoint issues.

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

Control log management for every team, every stack.

Simplify security by managing access to logs with granular RABC controls scoped to fit specific team structures and roles.
Scale more confidently with the ability to seamlessly send and process millions of logs per minute or petabytes per month.
Ensure compliance with automatic support for PCI and HIPPA standards.

Track and understand your log management volumes

Protect against cloud threats with 400+ detection rules.

Automate threat detection with a built-in SIEM to easily correlate activity across alerts.
Boost security coverage by aligning with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework.
Effortlessly customize rules to meet your needs with easy-to-use query language.
Spot suspicious activity fast using Log Explorer and Log Workspaces to query to visualize logs as tables, charts, and more.