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title: Log and Ingest
order: 100
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This section covers how data is structured and ingested into Rerun.

-   [Recordings](./logging-and-ingestion/recordings.md) - managing recordings and application IDs
-   [Entities and Components](./logging-and-ingestion/entity-component.md) - Rerun's data model
-   [The Entity Path Hierarchy](./logging-and-ingestion/entity-path.md) - organizing data hierarchically
-   [Transforms & Coordinate Frames](./logging-and-ingestion/transforms.md) - working with coordinate systems
-   [Events and Timelines](./logging-and-ingestion/timelines.md) - managing temporal data
-   [Static data](./logging-and-ingestion/static.md) - data that exists across all timelines
-   [Chunks](./logging-and-ingestion/chunks.md) - internal storage mechanism
-   [Importers](./logging-and-ingestion/importers.md) - loading external file formats
-   [Query semantics & partial updates](./logging-and-ingestion/latest-at.md) - how Rerun resolves data queries
-   [MCAP files](./logging-and-ingestion/mcap.md) - working with MCAP files
-   [Component Batches](./logging-and-ingestion/batches.md) - efficiently logging collections of data
-   [Sinks](./logging-and-ingestion/sinks.md) - where logged data goes
-   [Video](./logging-and-ingestion/video.md) - video data support
