Monitor Linux Event Logs with Datadog

Enhance Linux security and performance with real-time event log monitoring

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

800+ 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

800+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

Product Features

Stay Ahead of Threats and Perfomance Bugs Proactive Alerting and Analytics

Detect and respond to potential security breaches with powerful alerting and analytics on critical security events, login attempts, changes to access controls, and Microsoft Defender Antivirus events
Create customizable dashboards to monitor key events, logon attempts, scheduled tasks, and more, empowering your team with actionable insights for proactive maintenance and improvements

Efficiently Store & Analyze High Volume Logs

Store real-time application logs in Standard Tier and high-volume security, network, operational logs, and more in Flex Tier
Utilize Flex Logs to adjust your retention and querying capacity independently, fulfilling even more use cases than with standard retention
Maximize storage capacity and explore all log types seamlessly with the Log Explorer's tailored querying capabilities, enabling both simple and complex investigations

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Investigate and Troubleshoot Issues Faster

Search, filter, and analyze logs on the fly—no complex query language required
Automatically detect unanticipated outliers, anomalies, and log errors without the need to read every log file
Visualize and explore collected logs using an intuitive, facet-driven navigation and powerful log analytics
Respond to only the most important issues with composite alerts based on boolean logic

Easily Manage Your Logs with an Intuitive Platform

See log data in context with auto-tagging and metric correlation
Create real-time log analytics dashboards in seconds with Datadog’s drag-and-drop capabilities
Pivot from logs to the corresponding APM traces with a single click
Jump directly from logs to triggered security signals without switching tools or contexts

Control Costs without Sacrificing 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

Protect Sensitive Data within Your Logs

Prevent security breaches using a modern data compliance strategy with the Sensitive Data Scanner
Scrub sensitive data from your logs with Datadog's predefined or custom scanners
Record and access all user activity on the Datadog platform with audit logs
Easily report on your company’s sensitive data management with searchable tags on risk level, data source, and priority

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

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