Best practices
There are certain patterns of best practices in log management. Let's see how they can be rolled out using related Datadog features:
- Plan to collect as many logs as possible. It is better to stop collecting some of the logs later if they are found to be not useful.
- Where possible, especially with the application logs that you will have control over in terms of formatting, make the format of logs parsing friendly.
- Consider generating new logs for the purpose of generating metrics out of such logs. Such efforts have been found to be very useful in generating data for reporting.
- Make sure that sensitive information in logs is redacted before allowing Datadog to collect.
- Implement the redaction of sensitive information from the logs instead of filtering out log entries. However, filter out log entries that might not be useful, so the volume of logs handled by Datadog will be minimal.
- Create a library of searches and publish it for general...
