# Logs Management Overview

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.

## 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.

[Start Sending Logs in 5 Minutes - Free\
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## Key Capabilities

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

## Work with Logs

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

## Manage and Optimize

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

## Reference

- [Querying Logs](/content/docs/logs-management/querying-logs/index.html) — Query logs using Query Builder, ClickHouse SQL in Dashboards.
- [Logs API](/content/docs/logs-management/logs-api/overview/index.html) — Query logs programmatically.

Last updated: May 24, 2026