send-logs-to-aws-cloudwatch

This example shows how to run the AWS CloudWatch logs agent in a Docker container in order to send logs from a local environment to AWS.

This is useful if you are generating a lot of logs locally and want to use a tool like CloudWatch Logs Insights to query those logs.

The example configuration monitors the /logs directory within the container and sends everything in that directory to CloudWatch.

Requirements

• docker
• docker-compose

Run

1. Create the credentials file:

$ cp logger/aws.credentials.template logger/aws.credentials

2. Add valid credentials to the AmazonCloudWatchAgent profile in logger/aws.credentials.
3. Start the containers:

$ ./go.sh

4. From within the awscli container, create a log file entry:

ec2-user@2b4fa1d76296:/mounted-files$ echo "hello world" > /logs/test.log

Shut Down

$ docker-compose down