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Decide on Datadog Log Forwarding Requirements

Context and Problem Statement

Datadog supports log ingestion, but it can be costly. Some companies prefer to use in-place tooling like Splunk or Sumologic instead.

Considered Options

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Our Recommendation is to use Option 1 because you get a single pane of glass view into all operations

Option 2 - Other

Pros

  • Tightly integrated with your existing systems

  • Possible lower cost to operate that Datadog

Cons

  • We cannot assist with the implementation aside from forwarding logs using something like fluentd or fluentbit