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title: Supported Features
description: Learn which Datadog Log Explorer features are supported in BYOC Logs
breadcrumbs: Docs > BYOC Logs > Introduction to BYOC Logs > Supported Features
---

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt).

# Supported Features

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# Important note for users on the following Datadog sites: app.ddog-gov.com, us2.ddog-gov.com

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## Overview{% #overview %}

Datadog BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) Logs brings core Log Explorer capabilities to your self-hosted environment. This page outlines available features, notes any differences from the SaaS platform, and helps you plan your log workflows.

## Supported features{% #supported-features %}

### Search and visualization{% #search-and-visualization %}

- Full text search on any log attributes
- List, Timeseries, Top List, Table, Tree Map, Pie Chart, Scatter Plot visualizations
- Group into Fields and Patterns (except monthly timeshift)
- Group and sort, including group and sort with count unique
- Flat group queries
- Facet-based filtering and drill-down
- Download CSV
- Pagination
- Notebooks (Preview)

### Dashboards and monitors{% #dashboards-and-monitors %}

- Dashboards with BYOC Logs data
- Log monitors on BYOC Logs indexes

### Index management{% #index-management %}

- Multiple indexes with independent retention periods and routing rules

### Access control{% #access-control %}

- RBAC through [Log Restriction Queries](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/logs-restriction-queries.md)

### Correlation{% #correlation %}

- Correlation from a log in BYOC Logs to metrics sent to Datadog SaaS
- Correlation from a log in BYOC Logs to traces sent to Datadog SaaS
- Correlation from a log in BYOC Logs to processes sent to Datadog SaaS

### Processing{% #processing %}

- Configurable processing pipelines through Observability Pipelines
- Observability Pipeline connection

### AI features{% #ai-features %}

- Bits Investigation (Preview)
- MCP Server (Preview)

## Unsupported features{% #unsupported-features %}

BYOC Logs does not support the following features:

- SIEM
- Watchdog
- Federated search
- LiveTail
- Log context view

### Unsupported query capabilities{% #unsupported-query-capabilities %}

- CIDR query
- Group by transactions
- Advanced query capabilities:
  - Calculated fields
  - Grok extraction (query-time parsing)