Amazon CloudWatch Logs: User Guide

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudwatch/. CloudWatch Logs enables you to monitor your logs, in near real-time, for specific phrases, values or patterns. You can view the original log data to see the source of the problem if needed. You can store the Log data for as long as you need using highly durable, low-cost storage so you don’t have to worry about filling up hard drives. This guide explains how to deploy and administer CloudWatch Logs.