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

# Shape your log data

After creating, monitoring, and adjusting [budgets](/control/consumption/budgeting)
for your log data, you can use tools in Chronosphere Observability Platform to
transform, reshape, retain, or exclude data. Managing the data you persist can reduce
your overall consumption, provide predictability in generated log data, and result in
more performant queries when searching through logs.

After sending data to Observability Platform, apply logic to parse, normalize,
control, and format your logs before persisting the data to the database. Parsing
logic and field normalization are applied before any control rules run.

```mermaid actions={false} theme={null}
flowchart LR
Send["Send data"]
subgraph OP["Observability Platform"]
  Parse[Parse data]
  Normalize[Normalize data]
  Control[Control data]
  Format[Format data]
  Store[Store data]
end

Send --> Parse --> Normalize --> Control --> Format --> Store

click Parse "/control/shaping/shape-logs/parse-logs"
click Normalize "/control/shaping/shape-logs/normalize-logs"
click Control "/control/shaping/shape-logs/control-logs"
click Format "/control/shaping/shape-logs/lookup-logs/"

classDef stages fill:#2fbf71,stroke-width:2px,stroke:#2fbf71,color:#FFFFFF;
class Parse,Normalize,Control,Format stages
```

* **Parse**: To create structured logs from plaintext logs, and parse individual fields to
  extract meaningful data without changing your instrumentation, use
  [parsing](/control/shaping/shape-logs/parse-logs).
* **Normalize**: To apply custom field mappings to normalize log data, use
  [field normalization](/control/shaping/shape-logs/normalize-logs).
* **Control**: To drop entire logs, drop individual fields, or sample a percentage of
  your log data, create [control rules](/control/shaping/shape-logs/control-logs).
* **Format**: To add context and enrich logging queries with static values, use
  [lookup tables](/control/shaping/shape-logs/lookup-logs).