Simple Log Service (SLS) is a cloud-native observability and analytics platform that provides large-scale, low-cost, and real-time services to process multiple types of data such as logs, metrics, and traces. Simple Log Service allows you to collect, transform, query, analyze, visualize, ship, and consume data. You can also configure alert rules in the console. Simple Log Service helps you improve digital capabilities in R&D, O&M, and data security.
Features
Simple Log Service provides the following features to meet the requirements of cloud-native observability and analytics in multiple business scenarios.
Data collection
You can collect log data, trace data, or metric data from more than 50 types of data sources. These data sources include Alibaba Cloud services, servers, applications, IoT devices, mobile terminals, and open source software. You can also collect data that is transferred over standard protocols. For more information, see Data collection overview.
Log storage
Simple Log Service provides the intelligent tiered storage feature. You can use this feature to reduce the costs of long-term storage without negative impacts on the query, analysis, visualization, alerting, shipping, and transformation of log data in a logstore.
Data transformation
Simple Log Service provides more than 200 built-in functions, more than 400 regular expressions, and flexible custom functions to filter, split, convert, enrich, and replicate data. This feature meets your business requirements for multiple scenarios, such as data distribution, data standardization, and data integration.
Query and analysis
Simple 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. Simple Log Service also provides the Scheduled SQL feature and the Dedicated SQL feature.
Visualization
Simple Log Service allows you to visualize query and analysis results. Simple Log Service provides more than 10 types of charts, such as tables, line charts, bar charts, and maps. You can customize dashboards based on charts. You can also perform embedded analysis and drill-down analysis.
Alerting
Simple Log Service provides the integrated alerting feature. This feature includes the alert monitoring, alert management, and notification management systems. The alerting feature is suitable for multiple scenarios, such as DevOps, ITOps, AIOps, SecOps, and BizOps.
Consumption and shipping
Simple Log Service allows you to consume data by using Storm, Flume, or Flink in real time. You can also ship data to Object Storage Service (OSS), MaxCompute, or Time Series Database (TSDB) in real time.
Log Audit Service
Log Audit Service supports all features of Simple Log Service. Log Audit Service also supports automated and centralized log collection from cloud services across Alibaba Cloud accounts in real time. Then, you can audit the collected logs. In addition, Log Audit Service stores data required for audit and allows you to query and aggregate the data.
Usage
The table below outlines the methods for using Simple Log Service.
Method | Description |
Console | Simple Log Service offers a web console for managing your resources. See Getting Started for a quick demo on log collection. |
SDK | Simple Log Service provides SDKs for various programming languages to facilitate custom development. |
API | Simple Log Service provides APIs to manage your Simple Log Service resources. This method requires you to sign API requests. Note We recommend that you use SDKs to avoid signature verification. |
CLI | Simple Log Service provides a command-line interface (CLI) to manage your Simple Log Service resources. |
Pricing
Simple Log Service supports the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged based on your actual usage. Compared with a self-managed approach to deploy the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack, Simple Log Service allows you to reduce the total cost by 50%. For more information, see Billable items of pay-by-feature and Billable items of pay-by-ingested-data.
FAQs
What are the benefits of using Simple Log Service?
Unified access: Simple Log Service provides a unified portal for logs, metrics, and traces. Simple Log Service can collect data from various data sources, such as IoT, mobile apps, and servers. You can also use Simple Log Service to collect logs from cloud services, open source systems, multi-cloud environments, and on-premises servers.
End-to-end monitoring platform: Simple Log Service allows you to collect, transform, analyze, visualize, and ship data. You can also configure alerts for the data and view the alerts in the console.
Intelligence and efficiency: Simple Log Service supports intelligent anomaly detection and root cause analysis. You can analyze tens of billions of data records in seconds.
Scalability and low costs: Simple Log Service provides PB-level scalability per day and is fully managed and maintenance-free. The pay-as-you-go billing method is supported. You are charged only for the amount of consumed resources. The total cost of ownership (TCO) can be reduced by more than 50%.
Which types of data can be collected by Simple Log Service?
How long can the data be stored in Simple Log Service?
You can configure the log data to be either stored permanently or retained for a specified period, after which it will be automatically deleted. You can also enable intelligent tiered storage, which transfers data that exceeds a certain timeframe to Infrequent Access (IA) or Archive storage to reduce storage costs.
For more information, see FAQs.
Activate Simple Log Service
Click Simple Log Service console to activate Simple Log Service.
Terms
See Terms.