The hardest part of leaving your legacy log vendor usually isn't the decision — it's the migration. Hundreds of saved searches, dozens of dashboards, years of alerts, and a pile of custom-app logs that only parse because someone wrote the regex.

This session walks through how that migration actually happens. We'll show the tooling that translates SPL queries, dashboards, and alerts into their Datadog equivalents rather than making you rebuild them by hand. We'll parse an unstructured log live, with one click and no regex. And we'll cover how to keep years of logs in your own cloud storage and still search them directly, without a rehydration job.

Key Takeaways:

1. Keep the searches, dashboards, and alerts you already built. The SPL Migration Tool converts your SPL queries, dashboards, and alerts into Datadog equivalents—so you switch without losing a week to rebuilding.

2. Parse custom-app logs in one click and start querying the same afternoon. No regex, no waiting on the one person who wrote it.

3. Search years of logs without planning ahead. Keep logs in your own cloud storage and query them directly—no rehydration, no waiting on a restore mid-incident.