## Feature Overview

Unify all your logs, metrics, and traces in one interface for faster analysis and deeper understanding without extra cost or complexity.
With complete visibility across your stack, you can easily troubleshoot, optimize performance, and stop security threats—and improve business outcomes.

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## Easily analyze logs with no complex query language.

- **Understand issues faster** by correlating logs, metrics, traces, and security signals in one unified view. No tool switching required.
- **Start fast** with out-of-the-box dashboards and drill deeper with Pattern Inspector to reveal underlying data at a glance.
- **Identify trends** instantly by using Log Patterns to automatically group similar log messages.
- **Get AI-powered insights** from your built-in Watchdog and Bits AI with automated alerts, insights, and root-cause analysis.

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## Centralize processing and routing in a cinch.

- **Use one control panel** to process and build structured datasets from all raw log data, from any source.
- **Easily add more context** by enriching ingested logs with custom reference data.
- **Connect with external destinations** to securely send logs to your data lake or SIEM vendor using Log Forwarding.

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## Start Logging without Limits™

- **Control archiving** with flexible storage for Ingest, Live Tail, and Live Search, so you decide which logs to retain, and for how long.
- **Easily track trends and KPIs** by generating metrics from all logs, even if they’re not indexed.
- **Relieve audit anxiety** by rehydrating logs from your compressed archives and accessing them in Datadog.

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## Store and analyze logs in a snap with Flex Logs.

- **Tame high-volume logs** with Flex Logs by adjusting your retention and querying capacity independently.
- **Rein in costs, increase visibility** by storing and searching logs in one place, without the need for extra storage.
- **Consolidate logs** with instant tracking of configuration changes across multi-cloud environments.
- **Query quicker** with Log Explorer, your home base to search and filter, visualize and export logs.

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## Investigate any log, at any age, in Datadog.

- **Simplify investigations** with one query experience for live and historical logs.
- **Natively correlate** historical logs and metrics.
- **Streamline access** to long-term cloud storage without rehydration.

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## Control log management for every team, every stack.

- **Simplify security** by managing access to logs with granular RABC controls scoped to fit specific team structures and roles.
- **Scale more confidently** with the ability to seamlessly send and process millions of logs per minute or petabytes per month.
- **Ensure compliance** with automatic support for PCI and HIPAA standards.

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## Defend against attacks with 800+ detection rules

- **Automate threat detection** and response while correlating alert activity with a built-in AI-powered SIEM.
- **Boost security coverage** by aligning with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework.
- **Effortlessly customize rules** to meet your needs with an easy-to-use query language.
- **Spot suspicious activity fast** using Log Explorer and Log Workspaces to query and visualize logs as tables, charts, and more.

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## We’re recognized by G2 for Log Analysis and Log Monitoring.

Datadog Named Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for Sixth Time

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## Resources

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Resolving bugs and scaling challenges using the power of Logging without Limits™](/content/case-studies/ea-dice/index.html)

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Group your logs to analyze processes with Log Transaction Queries](/content/blog/logs-transactions-queries/index.html)

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Add more context to your logs with Reference Tables](/content/blog/add-context-with-reference-tables/index.html)

## What's Next

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