Diego Marques • 8/8/2025

5 tips to optimize logs and save costs on Datadog

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This technical guide details five cost-optimization techniques for Datadog Logs. It covers configuring indexes and retention periods, setting daily quotas, using exclusion filters for sampling, generating metrics from logs, and using log_processing_rules to drop unnecessary logs at the agent level before ingestion.

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