Datadog Log Management | Datadog

End-to-End Log Management with Datadog

Comprehensive log management and analytics to troubleshoot faster, reduce costs, and protect against threats at scale.

Why Datadog?

No Custom Query Language Required

Leverage unified tagging to filter and search anything easily — no training needed


Enterprise Scale & Reliability

Whatever your scale or use cases, take advantage of our SaaS platform that’s always prepared to handle more


850+ Vendor-Backed Integrations

Datadog offers wide coverage across any technology, with support and log processing templates provided by Datadog


Logging Without Limits™

Simple, but powerful techniques for prioritizing logs and staying in budget–without manual backups or dropping data


850+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

Product Benefits

Fix Issues Quickly and Gain Actionable Insights

  • Search, filter, and analyze logs in real time—no complex query language required
  • Seamlessly pivot between logs, traces, and metrics for full-stack visibility and faster root cause analysis
  • Identify patterns and trends instantly with Log Patterns’ AI-powered insights, and explore value distributions at a glance with Pattern Inspector
  • Surface critical anomalies automatically with Watchdog Insights, streamlining troubleshooting and eliminating noise
  • Quickly uncover actionable insights with out-of-the-box dashboards and intuitive drag-and-drop visualizations

Ingest, Search, and Store Your Logs with Unmatched Flexibility and Control

  • Customize log retention with ease—choose which logs to store and for how long, with the ability to adjust any time
  • Meet your budget and users’ query needs while while minimizing log storage silos
  • Make both simple and complex queries on all stored logs with the Log Explorer and Log Workspaces
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Efficiently Store & Analyze High Volume Logs

  • Leverage Flex Logs to adjust retention and query capacity independently, fulfilling even more use cases beyond standard retention
  • Meet your budget and users’ query needs while reducing the number of places logs need to be stored
  • Make both simple and complex queries on all stored logs with the full capabilities of the Log Explorer
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Optimize Your Costs While Maintaining Full 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
  • Support audits or investigations by quickly accessing archived logs without paying for active storage

Centralized Control for Processing, Routing, and Monitoring Your Logs

  • Transform raw logs into structured datasets with out-of-the-box pipelines for 200+ technologies, regardless of source
  • Kickstart projects with templates for dual shipping, log volume reduction, or archiving, and manage pipelines with an intuitive point-and-click interface
  • Monitor pipeline health in real-time with centralized dashboards and let Datadog’s automated insights flag critical issues before they escalate
  • Build, deploy, and monitor log pipelines seamlessly with a user-friendly, point-and-click interface
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Take Control of Log Volume, Streamline Migrations, and Optimize Routing

  • Filter, enrich, and prioritize logs to optimize routing, reduce costs, and retain critical insights
  • Dual-ship logs easily to ensure business continuity when migrating between vendors or using multiple solutions
  • Onboard new log sources and destinations at your pace while maintaining seamless workflows and complete visibility
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Safeguard and Manage Sensitive Data in Your Logs with Confidence

  • Discover, classify, and redact sensitive data at scale with Datadog’s predefined or custom scanners to build a modern compliance strategy
  • Define which data to scan and scrub using flexible filters across logs, APM spans, RUM events, and other telemetry data
  • Standardize data classification across dev, ops, and security teams to ensure consistency across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Easily report on your company’s sensitive data management with searchable tags on risk level, data source, and priority

Ensure Compliance and Governance Across Your Organization

  • Stay compliant with data residency laws and security standards like PCI, GDPR, HIPAA, and more, with complete control over data routing and customizable rules
  • Streamline access control and schema standardization by quickly adding, copying, and dropping relevant attributes and tags
  • Automatically capture, search, and analyze detailed audit events across configuration, access, and billing assets, with 90-day retention and long-term archiving options
  • Eliminate blind spots in asset ownership and access control to strengthen governance and visibility across your organization
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Proactively Detect and Protect Against Cloud Threats with 400+ Cloud Security Rules

  • Automate and simplify threat detection with Datadog’s intelligent SIEM, identifying security risks in real-time through log correlation
  • Ensure comprehensive security coverage by detecting common threats and attacks within the MITRE ATT&CK® framework
  • Tailor detection rules to your security needs with an intuitive and flexible query language
  • Use Log Explorer and Workspaces to analyze security logs and uncover suspicious user and entity behavior with tables, charts, and visualizations

Real results from Datadog customers

12B Log events each day, managed cost-effectively
EA DICE
<2 min Mean time to resolution (MTTR)
CITIZENS BANK
50% Cost savings on cloud resources
TRAVELSUPERMARKET

Loved & Trusted by Thousands

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