Logs Data Platform guides
Logs Data Platform is a turnkey, pay-as-you-go managed platform that increases visibility into your applications' environments by collecting, processing, analysing and storing your logs. It ingests the logs generated by your infrastructure and your applications, indexes them on a highly available and scalable infrastructure, displays them in real-time dashboards and lets you run complex queries with sub-second results.
It supports the full OpenSearch ecosystem and stays compatible with the tools you already use — Graylog, Grafana, Logstash, Flowgger and Filebeat — through standard protocols such as GELF, Syslog and LTSV. Log transfers are TLS-encrypted, retention is configurable from 14 days to 1 year, and alerting and API access are included.
The lifecycle of your logs runs through four phases, and these guides follow the same order:
- Generation — your applications and systems produce logs, which you forward using a logging library or a log forwarder.
- Ingestion — the platform inputs receive your logs, validate them and can enrich them before storage.
- Storage — your logs are kept as indexed data, as archives, or both.
- Consumption — you display, query, graph and alert on your logs.
To find the right guide for your needs:
- Are you discovering the product? Start with the Getting started section.
- Do you want to send logs to the platform? See the Ingesting your logs section, which lists the available inputs, libraries and forwarders.
- Do you want to exploit the logs already stored? See the Visualizing, querying and exploiting your logs section.
- Are you looking for the logs of your other OVHcloud products? See the OVHcloud Service Logs section.
Essential guides
Introduction to Logs Data Platform→
Understand what the platform does and the role of each component.
Quick start→
Configure your service and send your first logs.
Mutualized Inputs→
Discover the inputs available to ingest your logs.
Using OpenSearch Dashboards→
Build dashboards and explore your logs visually.
Getting started
Ingesting your logs
- Field naming convention→
- Mutualized Inputs→
- Dedicated input - Logstash→
- Mutualized input - OpenSearch API→
- Pushing logs with a logging library - Python 2.x - Djehouty→
- Pushing logs with a logging library - Python 3.x - logging-ldp→
- Logs Data Platform - Getting started with Node.js→
- Pushing logs with a logging library - Rust - gelf_logger and log4rs-gelf→
- Pushing logs with a forwarder - Filebeat (Linux)→
- Pushing logs with a forwarder - Syslog-ng (Linux)→
- Pushing logs with a forwarder - NXLog (Windows)→
- Pushing logs from software - Apache→
- Pushing logs from a Kubernetes cluster using Fluent Bit→
Visualizing, querying and exploiting your logs
- Exposing your logs to third-party tools via the OpenSearch API→
- Using OpenSearch Dashboards with Logs Data Platform→
- Using Grafana with Logs Data Platform→
- CLI - ldp-tail, a tool to follow your logs in real-time→
- CLI - bonfire, querying graylog from a CLI→
- Alerting - Configuring alerts on your streams→
- Alerting - Using ElastAlert 2 with Logs Data Platform→
- Extracting logs from Logs Data Platform→
OVHcloud Service Logs
- Introduction to OVHcloud Service Logs→
- Generating OVHcloud account logs→
- Collect VMware on OVHcloud logs→
- Public Cloud Load Balancer logs forwarding→
- Public Cloud Databases - How to setup logs forwarding→
- Web Cloud Databases - How to manage logs→
- Web Hosting - How to enable and manage logs→
- Managed Kubernetes Service audit logs forwarding→
- Pushing logs from OVHcloud KMS→
- OVHcloud Connect logs forwarding→
IAM and permissions
Security and conformity
OpenSearch Index as a Service
Use cases
Related products
- Managed Kubernetes Service — forward your cluster and audit logs to Logs Data Platform.
- Managed VMware — collect the logs of your VMware on OVHcloud environment into a Logs Data Platform stream.
- Public Cloud Databases — forward the logs of your managed database services to your own Logs Data Platform stream.
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