Log Management

Edge Delta is different from other log management tools for a few reasons.

• Effortless yet powerful: You shouldn’t have to be a “power user” to get value from your log monitoring tools. With Edge Delta, you’ll be completely set up in a matter of minutes with no complex configurations. Features like auto-completed queries and guided troubleshooting provide a simple observability experience.

• AI Anomaly Detection: Engineers shouldn’t have to predict the future. That’s why we use AI to detect anomalies. Now, you can identify production issues without having to define alert conditions or thresholds. This feature helps you save time and effort. It also means you don’t have to be conscious of every potential behavior to alert on.

• Cost-effective at scale: Edge Delta’s distributed architecture enables lower costs than other logging providers. This means you no longer need to sample or otherwise discard valuable data to contain costs.

• OpenTelemetry-native logging: Edge Delta uses OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) as our logging schema. By adopting the OTel schema, we give our users significantly more flexibility than other log analytics tools.

• Built-in pipeline control: Most other log management vendors give you little control over what you index. Edge Delta takes the opposite approach. You can shape/transform data, extract metrics from logs, and more. All data processing happens upstream, as our agent collects your log events.

Edge Delta enables cost-effective observability at scale. We do so by combining a distributed, agent-based architecture with a column-oriented SaaS backend.

At the agent level, Edge Delta processes your data to help you ingest the right data in the right shape. In other words, you can:

• Omit low-value data or verbose log contents

• Extract metrics from logs that you don’t need to ingest raw

• Toggle DEBUG log ingestion on and off from a central management pane

• …and more

In addition to this control, our column-oriented backend enables greater economies of scale. Thus, you can ingest larger volumes of log data without worrying about going over budget.

Edge Delta’s data retention policies are as follows:

• Free version: 7-day data retention

• Paid version: 30-day data retention

You can also retain log data for more than 30 days at a cost of $0.03 per GB/month.

With Edge Delta, there’s no need to learn a complex query language.

Edge Delta Log Management supports Common Query Language (CQL). CQL uses semantics that are common for log search use cases.

CQL is easy for an engineer to pick up on the fly. Moreover, we’ve implemented features like Auto-Complete to further shorten the learning curve.

No, Edge Delta leverages the OpenTelemetry (OTel) schema for logging. When you collect data using the Edge Delta agent, it will automatically re-shape your data into the OTel schema. The OTel schema for structured logging enables greater flexibility.

Yes. In addition to the SaaS offerings detailed above, Edge Delta supports deployments where you can self-host your own data in a hybrid SaaS model.

In this hybrid SaaS deployment model, you would use the Edge Delta interface to run queries. However, the collected log data would never leave your environment.

You can learn more about this model here.