> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Send Logs to Honeycomb

> Parse and send OpenTelemetry, structured, and unstructured logs to Honeycomb and start querying them with high cardinality alongside your traces and metrics.

You can send a variety of log types to Honeycomb using a number of different methods.

## Methods

<Card title="Logs with OpenTelemetry" href="/send-data/logs/opentelemetry/">
  Explore our recommended method of sending logs to Honeycomb--using OpenTelemetry.
  You can use OpenTelemetry to collect your existing logs whether they are in custom formats or popular formats, such as Fluentd, NGINX, JournalD, syslog, and so on.
  You can also use OpenTelemetry to generate structured logs that can be correlated with traces.
</Card>

<Card title="Other Integrations" href="/send-data/logs/">
  Explore the other technologies, including log collectors, with which Honeycomb can integrate to receive log data.
</Card>

## Log Types

<Card title="Structured" href="/send-data/logs/structured/">
  Explore the methods Honeycomb recommends to send structured logs to Honeycomb.
  Structured logs contain data that is organized in a well-structured and consistent format that can be customized to your needs.
</Card>

<Card title="Unstructured" href="/send-data/logs/unstructured/">
  Explore the methods Honeycomb recommends to send unstructured logs to Honeycomb.
  Unstructured logs generally contain data that is not organized according to a pre-defined data model.
</Card>

## Integrations

Although we recommend that you [send your logs to Honeycomb using OpenTelemetry](/send-data/logs/opentelemetry/), Honeycomb provides the following additional integrations for sending logs:

<Card title="Fastly" href="/integrations/logs/fastly/">
  If your system uses Fastly to distribute content, you can stream logs to Honeycomb for more insight into the your system's behavior.
</Card>

<Card title="Fluentd" href="/integrations/logs/fluentd/">
  If your system uses Fluentd to aggregate structured logs, you can use Fluentd's plugin to forward data to Honeycomb.
</Card>

<Card title="Logstash" href="/integrations/logs/logstash/">
  If your system uses Logstash as a log collector, you can use Logstash's plugin to send a copy of all traffic to Honeycomb.
</Card>

<Card title="Community Integrations" href="/integrations/community-contrib/">
  We also maintain a GitHub repository that contains various integrations contributed by our community. Explore our repo to see other integrations that send your logs to Honeycomb.
</Card>