Chapter 13: Managing Logs Using Datadog

The logs generated by the operating system, the various platform components, and the application services contain a lot of information regarding the state of the infrastructure as well as the workings of the applications running on it. Managing all logs at a central repository and analyzing that for operational insights and monitoring purposes is an important area in monitoring. It usually involves the collection, aggregation, and indexing of logs. In Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring, this monitoring type was briefly discussed. In Chapter 12, Monitoring Containers, you learned how logs from containers are published to Datadog for aggregation and indexing for facilitating searches.

Some of the popular monitoring product offerings in this area are ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Splunk, and Sumo Logic. Now, Datadog also provides this feature and you have seen Log Explorer, a frontend to that feature, in the last chapter...