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Simple Log Service:Architecture

Last Updated:Aug 25, 2023

This topic describes the architecture of Log Service.

The following figure shows the architecture of Log Service.

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  • Data sources

    Log Service allows you to collect data from open source software, servers and applications, Alibaba Cloud services, mobile terminals, and IoT devices. You can also collect data that is transferred over multiple protocols.

  • Log Service

    • Data types

      Log Service provides a platform on which you can use various features to process large amounts of data at low cost and in real time. The types of data that you can process include logs, metrics, and traces. For more information, see Log, Metric, and Trace.

    • Features

      • Data collection: Log Service allows you to collect data by using Logtail, SDKs, and protocols. For more information, see Data collection overview.

      • Data transformation: Data transformation is a fully managed feature that provides high availability and scalability in Log Service. You can use the data transformation feature to standardize, enrich, dispatch, mask, and filter data. For more information, see Overview of data transformation.

      • Data query and analysis: Log Service allows you to query and analyze petabytes of data in real time. This feature supports more than 10 operators, more than 10 machine learning functions, and more than 100 SQL functions. This feature also supports scheduled SQL jobs and dedicated SQL instances. For more information, see Log search overview and Log analysis overview.

      • Visualization: Log Service allows you to visualize query and analysis results. You can customize dashboards based on charts. For more information, see Visualization overview.

      • Alerting: Log Service provides the integrated alerting feature. This feature includes the alert monitoring, alert management, and notification management systems. The alerting feature is applicable to multiple scenarios such as DevOps, ITOps, AIOps, SecOps, and BizOps. For more information, see The alerting feature of Simple Log Service.

      • Data consumption and shipping: Log Service allows you to consume data in real time by using Storm, Flume, or Flink. You can also ship data to Object Storage Service (OSS), MaxCompute, or Time Series Database (TSDB) in real time. For more information, see Data shipping overview and Data consumption overview.

      • Log audit: Log Service provides an automated and centralized method to collect and audit the logs of cloud services across Alibaba Cloud accounts in real time. For more information, see Log Audit Service.

    • Methods

      You can manage your resources in Log Service by using the Log Service console, API, SDKs, or CLI.

    • Scenarios

      Log Service is applicable to multiple scenarios such as operation, O&M, R&D, and security. For more information, see Common scenarios.

  • Data destinations

    Log Service allows you to export data to cloud services or third-party software by using the data consumption or data shipping feature.