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General MotorsGeneral Motors Uses Log Management for Log Investigation
General Motors, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Log Management from Datadog to support incident response for on-call engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | On-call engineers work from the same Log Management record for log investigation |
| Capability | Log investigation can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for log investigation |
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Inside General Motors, incident response used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer discretionary groups working out of the United States. On-call engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
General Motors uses Log Management from Datadog as the working layer for log investigation. Datadog is an observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals for cloud applications. The practical change is simple: incident response has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What General Motors gets from Datadog is a durable place to run incident response and a way for on-call engineers to see the same log investigation at the same time.
