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Getting Started with Logz.io

Logz.io is a scalable, end-to-end cloud monitoring service that combines the best open-source tools with a fully managed SaaS platform. It provides unified log, metric, and trace collection with AI/ML-enhanced features for improved troubleshooting, faster response times, and cost management.

Whether you’re new to Logz.io or need a refresher, join one us for a training session on the Logz.io platform!

Send your data to Logz.io

After setting up your account, you can start sending your data to Logz.io using various tools, integrations, and methods for monitoring Logs, Metrics, Traces, and SIEM.

The quickest way is through our Telemetry Collector, which simplifies data configuration with a single line of code, enabling full observability across your systems.

Get started with Telemetry Collector.

If you prefer a manual approach, Logz.io offers multiple methods tailored to different monitoring needs. Here are some popular options:

LogsMetricsTracesCloud SIEM
Filebeat.NETJaeger installationCloudflare
S3 BucketPrometheusOpenTelemetry installationNGINX
cURLJavaDockerActive directory
HTTP uploadsNode.jsKubernetesCloudTrail
PythonAmazon EC2Go instrumentationAuditbeat

Browse the complete list of available shipping methods here.

Parsing your data

Logz.io automatically parses over 50 log types.

If your log type isn't listed, or you want to send custom logs, we offer parsing-as-a-service as part of your subscription. Just reach out to our Support team via chat or email us at help@logz.io with your request.

Additional resources

Learn more about sending data to Logz.io:

Logz.io's Explore lets you view, search, and query your data to analyze code, debug issues, and get guidance with its integrated AI Assistant.

Log management overview

Key capabilities in Explore include:

Create visualizations with Logz.io's Infrastructure Monitoring

Logz.io's Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time visibility into the status of your distributed cloud services. It enables your team to create custom dashboards to oversee deployments, manage incidents, and prevent outages in complex environments.

Infrastructure Monitoring overview

After sending your metrics to Logz.io, you can:

Build Metrics visualizations with Logz.io

You can also:

Additional resources

Dive deeper with Logz.io's Distributed Tracing

Leverage Logz.io’s Distributed Tracing to gain deep insights into your microservices' behavior, enhancing performance and streamlining investigation and troubleshooting.

Distributed Tracing overview

To make the most of Distributed Tracing, check out these guides:

Secure your environment with Logz.io's Cloud SIEM

Logz.io Cloud SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) consolidates security logs and alerts across distributed environments, enabling your team to investigate incidents from a single observability platform.

Cloud SIEM overview

Get Started with Cloud SIEM:

Manage and optimize your Logz.io account

Admins can control user permissions, manage accounts, set up SSO, and handle data archiving.

The following list explores the more common use cases for Logz.io's account admins:

In addition, Logz.io's Data Hub helps you manage and optimize your Logz.io products by offering tailored recommendations and a quick and easy way to control your logs and metrics usage. Account Admins can use Data Hub to:

And more.

Get a detailed overview with the Home Dashboard

The Home Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your account's data, including logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and insights. Access it by clicking the Home icon in the navigation.

Learn how to utilize your Home Dashboard.

Home dashboard Overview

1. Customize your view

Select elements like logs, metrics, and traces to display or hide, with immediate graph and table updates. Click on one of the boxes to add or remove them from your view. The graph and chart will be updated immediately.

For example, clicking on Insights or Exceptions will remove all of them from the graph and the table, allowing you to shift your focus according to your monitoring needs.

Add remove elements

2. Graph overview

Visualize data over time and explore detailed event breakdowns.

Graph hover view

3. Table overview

At the bottom of the page, your data is displayed in a table format, breaking down events by type, severity, grouped count, and the date they were last triggered.

Hover over an event to reveal the Investigate button, which opens the event in OpenSearch Dashboards for deeper analysis.

Investigate button

4. Search and access dashboards

The Home Dashboard provides quick access to your logs and metrics dashboards, enabling you to search across all available dashboards in your account. Simply start typing to find a specific dashboard, and click to open it in a new tab. The view also shows recently accessed dashboards, and you can mark essential ones as favorites for easy access.

5. Set your time frame

The top of the page shows the last data update, helping you stay current.

You can adjust the time range to view data from the last 2 to 24 hours. The Home Dashboard will then refresh to display data for the selected period.