AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
CloudWatch Logs and Logs Insights
Log groups, retention, and the three ways log data leaves CloudWatch Logs: metric filters that create alarms, subscription filters that stream in near real time, and Logs Insights queries that answer one-off questions.
Intermediate 22 minutes 6 Learning Objectives
- Describe the relationship between log events, log streams, and log groups
- Set retention deliberately and explain what the default costs you
- Choose between a metric filter, a subscription filter, and a Logs Insights query for a given requirement
- Write a Logs Insights query using fields, filter, stats, and sort
- Distinguish filter pattern syntax from Logs Insights query syntax
- Control Logs Insights cost with time ranges, log group scope, and field indexes