Overview

Datadog Logging without Limits* decouples log ingestion and indexing. Choose which logs to index and retain, or archive, and manage settings and controls at a top-level from the log configuration page at Logs > Configuration.

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Configuration options

• Control how your logs are processed with pipelines and processors.
• Set attributes and aliasing to unify your logs environment.
• Generate metrics from ingested logs as cost-efficient way to summarize log data from an entire ingested stream.
• Institute fine-grained control over your log management budget with log indexes.
• Forward ingested logs to your own cloud-hosted storage bucket to keep as an archive for future troubleshooting or compliance audits.
• Rehydrate an archive to analyze or investigate log events that are older or excluded from indexing.
• Restrict logs data access with restriction queries.

Log Explorer

Once you’ve completed configuration, start investigating and troubleshooting logs in the Log Explorer.

Further Reading

*Logging without Limits is a trademark of Datadog, Inc.