topic Re: dynatrace_ingest for logs? in Open Q&A

dynatrace_ingest for logs?

AntonioSousa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:42:13 GMT

dynatrace_ingest can ingest metrics locally. But if we want to ingest logs locally, suggested way is with a curl command.
Is there a way to pipe output from a Linux/Windows command, through dynatrace_ingest, or something similar?

Re: dynatrace_ingest for logs?

AntonPineiro — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:55:53 GMT

Hi,

If you have OneAgent, you can ingest custom logs base on tomcus log course and ingestion rules.

Best regards

Re: dynatrace_ingest for logs?

AntonioSousa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:49:10 GMT

@AntonPineiro ,

The idea is to not have log files in the first place, so I don't have to write to disk. Something like:

./my_program -v | dynatrace_ingest

Re: dynatrace_ingest for logs?

JustSchwendi — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:19:28 GMT

You mean ingest logs from local to SaaS cluster?
For this use case, you would use the log ingest API and curl, or powershell.
You first need to create an API log.ingest token and then run somthing like

tail -f /var/log/syslog | while read line; do curl -X POST "http://<tenantFQDN>/v2/logs/ingest" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Api-Token <your-token>" \ -d "{\"content\": \"$line\"}" done

In this blog, OTel was used to ingest logs extracted from a local json file on a raspberry pi:
Leverage edge IoT data with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace
Details are explained in Step 5.

Hope this helps 🙂