# Logs Management Overview

Learn how SigNoz collects, searches, and analyzes logs using OpenTelemetry. Explore log sources, query tools, pipelines, and alerting.

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Tags: SigNoz Cloud, Self-Host

SigNoz natively supports OpenTelemetry for log collection, giving you a unified model for logs, traces, and metrics. Lift-and-shift existing log libraries, forward from agents like FluentBit or Logstash, or instrument directly with OpenTelemetry SDKs.

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*SigNoz Logs Management*

## Quick Start

Get started with SigNoz Cloud's guided onboarding — no local install required. You'll connect a log source and see your first data in minutes.

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## Key Capabilities

- **[Flexible Ingestion](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/send-logs-to-signoz/)** — Collect logs from files, stdout, FluentBit/FluentD/Logstash, OpenTelemetry SDKs, HTTP endpoints, and cloud services.
- **[Logs Explorer](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/logs_query_builder/)** — Search, filter, and analyze logs with List, Time Series, and Table views. Stream live logs in real time.
- **[Query Builder](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/logs_query_builder/)** — Build advanced queries with aggregations, grouping, and multi-query comparisons.
- **[Log Pipelines](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-pipelines/introduction/)** — Parse, transform, and enrich logs before storage using SigNoz's functional pipeline builder.
- **[Alerts](https://signoz.io/docs/alerts-management/log-based-alerts/)** — Set up alerts on log patterns, counts, or attribute values.
- **[Unified Context](https://signoz.io/docs/traces-management/guides/correlate-traces-and-logs/)** — Correlate logs with traces and metrics for faster root-cause analysis.

## Work with Logs

- [Logs Explorer](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/logs_query_builder/) — Search and analyze your log data.
- [Fields in Logs](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/logs_fields/) — Understand attributes, resource fields, and indexing.
- [Logs Query Builder](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/logs_query_builder/) — Build and run advanced log queries.
- [Quick Filters](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/features/logs-quick-filters/) — Filter logs by common attributes.
- [Parse Multiline Logs](https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/parse-multiline-logs/) — Handle stack traces and multi-line log entries.

## Manage and Optimize

- [Log Pipelines](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-pipelines/introduction/) — Preprocess logs with parsing, filtering, and transformations.
- [Drop Logs](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/guides/drop-logs/) — Filter out unwanted logs to reduce costs.
- [PII Scrubbing](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/guides/pii-scrubbing/) — Remove sensitive data before storage.
- [Set Resource Attributes](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/guides/set-resource-attributes-for-logs/) — Enrich logs with resource context.

## Reference

- [Querying Logs](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/querying-logs/) — Query logs using Query Builder, ClickHouse SQL in Dashboards.
- [Logs API](https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/logs-api/overview/) — Query logs programmatically.
- [OpenTelemetry Environment Variables](https://signoz.io/docs/ingestion/opentelemetry-environment-variables/) — Configure service identity, OTLP endpoints, headers, protocols, and batching.
- [Debug Missing Telemetry](https://signoz.io/docs/ingestion/signoz-cloud/troubleshooting/data-not-appearing/) — Find where your logs are getting lost between your app and SigNoz.

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