# Configuration for AWS CloudWatchLogs output. [[outputs.cloudwatch_logs]] ## The region is the Amazon region that you wish to connect to. ## Examples include but are not limited to: ## - us-west-1 ## - us-west-2 ## - us-east-1 ## - ap-southeast-1 ## - ap-southeast-2 ## ... region = "us-east-1" ## Amazon Credentials ## Credentials are loaded in the following order ## 1) Web identity provider credentials via STS if role_arn and ## web_identity_token_file are specified ## 2) Assumed credentials via STS if role_arn is specified ## 3) explicit credentials from 'access_key' and 'secret_key' ## 4) shared profile from 'profile' ## 5) environment variables ## 6) shared credentials file ## 7) EC2 Instance Profile #access_key = "" #secret_key = "" #token = "" #role_arn = "" #web_identity_token_file = "" #role_session_name = "" #profile = "" #shared_credential_file = "" ## Endpoint to make request against, the correct endpoint is automatically ## determined and this option should only be set if you wish to override the ## default, e.g endpoint_url = "http://localhost:8000" # endpoint_url = "" ## Cloud watch log group. Must be created in AWS cloudwatch logs upfront! ## For example, you can specify the name of the k8s cluster here to group logs ## from all cluster in oine place log_group = "my-group-name" ## Log stream in log group ## Either log group name or reference to metric attribute, from which it can ## be parsed, tag: or field:. If the log stream is not ## exist, it will be created. Since AWS is not automatically delete logs ## streams with expired logs entries (i.e. empty log stream) you need to put ## in place appropriate house-keeping (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=178855) log_stream = "tag:location" ## Source of log data - metric name ## specify the name of the metric, from which the log data should be ## retrieved. I.e., if you are using docker_log plugin to stream logs from ## container, then specify log_data_metric_name = "docker_log" log_data_metric_name = "docker_log" ## Specify from which metric attribute the log data should be retrieved: ## tag: or field:. ## I.e., if you are using docker_log plugin to stream logs from container, ## then specify log_data_source = "field:message" log_data_source = "field:message"