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title: Log Explorer
description: Search through all of your logs and perform Log Analytics
breadcrumbs: Docs > Log Management > Log Explorer
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# Log Explorer

## Overview{% #overview %}

The [**Log Explorer**](https://app.datadoghq.com/logs) is your home base for log troubleshooting and exploration. Whether you start from scratch, from a [Saved View](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/saved_views/), or land here from any other context like monitor notifications or dashboard widgets, you can search and filter, group, visualize, and export logs in the Log Explorer.

{% image
   source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/logs/explore.b937574cd932232459c1c5746146a353.png?auto=format"
   alt="Explore your ingested logs" /%}

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

**Search** and **Filter** on logs to narrow down, broaden, or shift your focus on a subset of logs tailored to your current interest.

- To learn more about searching for logs in the Log Explorer, read [Search Logs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/search).
- To start creating queries and using facets in the Log Explorer, read [Log Search Syntax](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/search_syntax/).
- To learn how [Watchdog Insights](https://docs.datadoghq.com/watchdog/insights) surface anomalous logs and outliers in error logs within your search context, read [Watchdog Insights for Logs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/insights).

## Analyze{% #analyze %}

**Group** your queried logs into higher-level entities such as fields, patterns, and transactions in order to derive or consolidate information.

To start identifying patterns and aggregating logs by subsets of events, see [Log Analytics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/analytics).

## Visualize{% #visualize %}

**Visualize** the outcome of your filters and aggregations to better understand your logs and gather decisive information. For example, you can view your logs in a list to organize your log data into columns, or in a timeseries graph to measure your log data over time.

To start visualizing log data in the Log Explorer, see [Log Visualizations](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/visualize).

## Export{% #export %}

You can also **export** your Log Explorer view to reuse it later or in different contexts.

To learn how to export your log queries and visualizations, see [Export Logs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/export).

## Further Reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Preview your logs in Live Tail](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/live_tail)
- [Automatically configure your Log Explorer](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/saved_views/)
- [Add a Log Explorer url to your clipboard](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-clipboard/)
- [Send Amazon VPC flow logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/send-amazon-vpc-flow-logs-to-data-firehose-and-datadog/)
- [Accelerate investigations with AI-powered log parsing](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ai-powered-log-parsing)