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
Option 1 (Recommended) - Use Datadog
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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
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Tightly integrated with your existing systems
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Possible lower cost to operate that Datadog
Cons
- We cannot assist with the implementation aside from forwarding logs using something like
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