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title: Logs
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Datadog IDE Plugins > Datadog Extension for VS Code & Cursor > Logs
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# Logs

## Overview{% #overview %}

The **Logs** feature detects logging patterns in your source code and displays the volume of matching log records from Datadog. Click an annotation to open the [Log Explorer](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer.md) and view the matching logs.

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   url="https://docs.dd-static.net/images//ide_plugins/vscode/logs_navigation.mp4" /%}

You can also search Datadog logs from within the IDE. Select any text in the code editor, then right-click and select **Datadog > Search Logs With Selected Text**.

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## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Learn more about Logs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer.md)