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# Logging Service

The IONOS Logging Service provides a centralized and scalable solution for logging, monitoring, and analyzing your application and infrastructure logs. It offers a wide range of features to help you collect and analyze your logs from different log sources, monitor performance effectively, and gain insights into your system's behavior.

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**Note:** Logging Service is:

* currently available only through the API, without the DCD implementation.
* available in the Berlin region and will soon expand to include more areas.
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## Product Overview

Get an overview of the Logging Service.

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Logging Service Overview**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview.md)                | An overview of the product and its components.                             |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Features and Benefits**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/features-benefits.md) | Information about its features and benefits.                               |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Use Cases**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/use-cases.md)                     | Information about various use cases of Logging Service.                    |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Log Collection**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/log-collection.md)           | Information about log collection, log agent, and Fluent Bit configuration. |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Log Sources**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/log-sources.md)                 | Information about various log sources.                                     |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Log Pipelines**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/log-pipelines.md)             | Information about the log pipelines.                                       |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Log Security**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/overview/log-security.md)               | Information about safety mechanisms for logs pushed from various sources.  |

## DCD How-Tos

Set relevant privileges via the DCD.

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Set User Privileges for Logging Service**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/dcd-how-tos/set-privileges-logging-service.md) | Learn how to set User privileges for Logging Service. |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------- |

## API How-Tos

Get started with Logging Service via the API.

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Set Up a Logging Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/set-up-logging-pipeline-instance.md)         | Create an instance of a logging pipeline.               |
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| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Obtain a new Key**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/obtain-key.md)                                                 | Obtain a new key for a logging pipeline.                |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Modify a Logging Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/modify-logging-pipeline-instance.md)         | Update an existing logging pipeline.                    |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Retrieve Logging Pipeline Information**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/retrieve-logging-pipeline-information.md) | Retrieve information about a specific logging pipeline. |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Delete a Logging Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/delete-logging-pipeline-instance.md)         | Delete a specific logging pipeline.                     |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Modify the Log Retention Policy**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/api-how-tos/modify-log-retention-policy.md)                 | Customize the retention policy for each log stream.     |

## Quick Start

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Send Logs to Platform**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/quick-start/send-logs-to-platform.md)     | Steps to send logs to the logging platform.     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Access Logs from Platform**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/quick-start/send-logs-to-platform.md) | Steps to access logs from the logging platform. |

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

To get answers to the most commonly encountered questions about the Logging Service platform, see [<mark style="color:blue;">**Logging Service FAQs**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/bM7yG7XCmGE9IxWqMpBu/managed-services/logging-service/logging-service-faqs.md).


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