Use Observability Pipelines’ Datadog Logs destination to send logs to Datadog Log Management. You can also use AWS PrivateLink to send logs from Observability Pipelines to Datadog.

Setup

Set up the Datadog Logs destination and its environment variables when you set up a pipeline. The information below is configured in the pipelines UI.

Set up the destination

1. Optionally, toggle the switch to enable Buffering Options.
   Note: Buffering options is in Preview. Contact your account manager to request access.
   • If left disabled, the maximum size for buffering is 500 events.
   • If enabled:
     1. Select the buffer type you want to set (Memory or Disk).
     2. Enter the buffer size and select the unit.

Set the environment variables

No environment variables required.

How the destination works

Event batching

A batch of events is flushed when one of these parameters is met. See event batching for more information.