Say goodbye to complicated log shipper configs and the hassle of deciding which logs to ship from your apps. Filter, transform, and redact incoming logs at ingest directly in Better Stack.
Control costs and customize what logs get ingested and stored. Fully control your logs as they come in. Configure custom transformations, redact sensitive information, and drop specific fields or whole log events.
Want to stop ingesting specific logs? Create an ingestion filter with a single click.
Read on to learn how to take control of your data.
Get rid of irrelevant logs with a single click
Seeing unwanted logs in Live tail? Mark them as spam to remove them during ingestion. Filter out logs based on any field value or remove all similar logs using a log pattern. Removed logs don't count towards your usage.
Changed your mind? Adjust your ingesting filters at any time.
Mark logs as spam in Live tail.
Redact and transform your logs before they are stored
Need to redact sensitive information from your logs? Prevent any log field from getting stored. Redact personally identifiable information, remove fields, and drop entire log events.
Incoming logs structured differently than you need? Parse any format, move log fields around, and change logs before they are stored. Set up custom transformations directly in Better Stack dashboard.
Customize log ingestion in Sources → Configure → Transform.
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