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title: "Logs key takeaways | Grafana Labs"
description: "Key takeaways for collecting cloud logs."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Key takeaways

- Cloud logs include application, platform, audit, network, and service records.
- You have several collection methods:
  
  - **Firehose (AWS)**: managed streaming for most high-volume CloudWatch logs.
  - **Lambda Promtail (AWS)**: for the specific types Firehose doesn’t support, like ALB, CloudFront, and CloudTrail. It can also filter logs before forwarding.
  - **Functions (Azure)**: event-driven collection from Event Hub.
  - **Grafana Alloy**: flexible processing on Azure, and the collection path for GCP via Pub/Sub.
- Choose the collection method based on log volume, the specific log types you need, and your cloud provider.