Use Datadog to manage your Logs from a PHP application

Marianela
5 min readJan 18, 2023

Today the management of logs it has become in a challenge for applications that has to handle millions of records. Having logs and analyze them is an important tool when is necessary to solve the occurrences of the errors. We can investigate the origin of the problems searching on logs, because in the logs we will always have a trace of the events that happened in the system. Analyze them can help us to find the solution to many darks issues that sometimes happens in a production enviroment.

Datadog has become is one the most used tools for managing and analice logs , metrics and many more variables on a system. Today we are going to use Datadog for handle the logs produced by a PHP application on a window machine.

Sing in Datadog and install the Datadog Agent

In order to acces to datadog and try the free trial we will access https://www.datadoghq.com/product/log-management/ and press the Try Free button

Enter your personal data email, name and phone number

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