How to calculate duration between logs in Datadog?

Question

Splunk has transaction command which can produce duration between logs grouped by id:

2020-01-01 12:12 event=START id=1
2020-01-01 12:13 event=STOP  id=1

as it is described on

• Query for calculating duration between two different logs in Splunk
• Splunk - duration between two different messages by guid
• transaction time between events

How to calculate duration between events in Datadog?

Answer 1

You can use group queries to create transactions that will automatically calculate the duration. This screenshot is an example of logs grouped into transactions by CartId.