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Send logs to BYOC Logs with REST API

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Overview

You can send logs to BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) Logs using direct REST API calls. This method is useful for custom integrations or scripts that can’t use a Datadog Agent or Observability Pipelines.

Datadog Logs API

Endpoint: POST /api/v2/logs
Content-Type: application/json
Authentication: Datadog API key

curl -X POST "http://<RELEASE_NAME>-indexer.<NAMESPACE_NAME>.svc.cluster.local:7280/api/v2/logs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: your-datadog-api-key" \
  -d '[
    {
      "message": "User login successful",
      "level": "info",
      "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
      "service": "auth-service",
      "host": "web-01",
      "tags": ["authentication", "success"]
    }
  ]'

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Datadog Agent IntegrationDOCUMENTATION more more Observability Pipelines IntegrationDOCUMENTATION more more