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⇱ Search Syntax

For AI agents: A markdown version of this page is available at https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/searching.md. A documentation index is available at /llms.txt.

Search Syntax

Overview

Events search uses the logs search syntax. Like logs search, events search permits:

  • AND, OR, and - operators
  • Wildcards
  • Escape characters
  • Searching tags and facets with key:value
  • Searching within attributes with the @ prefix

Example queries

source:(github OR chef)
Show events from GitHub OR Chef.
host:(i-0ade23e6 AND db.myapp.com)
Show events from i-0ade23e6 AND db.myapp.com.
service:kafka
Show events from the kafka service.
status:error
Show events with an error status (supports: error, warning, info, ok).
availability-zone:us-east-1a
Show events in the us-east-1a AWS availability zone (AZ).
container_id:foo*
Show events from all containers with an ID beginning with foo.
@evt.name:foo
Show the events with attribute evt.name equal to foo.

See Logs Search Syntax for more details.

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