Fix for the problem of logs not getting uploaded
- Created the log configuration with run as user
root - Created config with runas user root
- Then executed
sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -c file:/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config.json - Restarted the cloudwatch log agent
sudo systemctl restart amazon-cloudwatch-agent.service
- Verified in the agent log
Gaining insights from the logs
- Refer Here fo the Log insights query syntax
- General Queries
- Show 100 logs
fields @timestamp, @message | limit 100
- show latest 50 log records
fields @timestamp, @message| sort @timestamp desc | limit 50
- Lets try to view the error logs with directory in message
- Glob patterns & regular expression to extract fields
- Refer Here for the regex cheat sheet
- Refer Here
