Log Management

CloudWatch Logs

6min

KloudMate lets you ingest any CloudWatch Logs into your workspace. You can search all your AWS service logs by log groups and start ingesting with just a click of a button. Further, you can use various CloudWatch logs attributes to get the relevant data from your ingested logs.

Note that Lambda logs of the connected AWS account are automatically ingested.

Use the following steps to start ingesting CloudWatch logs for your AWS services.

Step 1: From the Home screen, click on Settings > Data Sources.

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Step 2: The Data Sources screen will display all of your connected AWS accounts. Click on the Settings icon of the AWS account from where you want to ingest CloudWatch logs.

Step 3: Click on the CloudWatch Logs option.

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Step 4: Select the respective region from the drop-down menu or search for log groups using the search field.

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Step 5: Once you find the relevant logs, click on the Subscribe button to start ingesting logs.

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CloudWatch Limitation

AWS has a limit on the maximum number of CloudWatch logs subscription filters. AWS allows only two subscription filters per log group.

If you already have two subscription filters in your log group and you try to subscribe one more you will see the following message on the screen.

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Using CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filters

In order to add another subscription filter you will need to remove a subscription filter from the log group that you don't need using the AWS console.

Use the following steps to delete a CloudWatch logs subscription filter using the AWS console.

Step 1: Go to the AWS console

Step 2: Navigate to the CloudWatch Console and go to the Log groups

Step 3: Select the log group using the radio buttons

Step 4: Click on Action, then click on Remove Subscription Filter

You can access, search, filter, and analyze all the ingested logs in the KloudMate Logs section. Refer to the Log Explorer Documentation to learn more.





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