Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch output plugin for Fluentd
Overview
This plugin outputs logs or metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. For details, see https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-logs.
Example output configurations
Configuration
Output Config
auto_create_stream (bool, optional)
Create log group and stream automatically.
Default: false
aws_key_id (*secret.Secret, optional)
AWS access key id Secret
aws_instance_profile_credentials_retries (int, optional)
Instance Profile Credentials call retries
Default: nil
aws_sec_key (*secret.Secret, optional)
AWS secret key. Secret
aws_sts_role_arn (string, optional)
The role ARN to assume when using cross-account sts authentication
aws_sts_session_name (string, optional)
The session name to use with sts authentication
Default: ‘fluentd’
aws_use_sts (bool, optional)
Enable AssumeRoleCredentials to authenticate, rather than the default credential hierarchy. See ‘Cross-Account Operation’ below for more detail.
buffer (*Buffer, optional)
concurrency (int, optional)
Use to set the number of threads pushing data to CloudWatch.
Default: 1
endpoint (string, optional)
Use this parameter to connect to the local API endpoint (for testing)
format (*Format, optional)
http_proxy (string, optional)
Use to set an optional HTTP proxy
include_time_key (bool, optional)
Include time key as part of the log entry
Default: UTC
json_handler (string, optional)
Name of the library to be used to handle JSON data. For now, supported libraries are json (default) and yaml
localtime (bool, optional)
Use localtime timezone for include_time_key output (overrides UTC default)
log_group_aws_tags (string, optional)
Set a hash with keys and values to tag the log group resource
log_group_aws_tags_key (string, optional)
Specified field of records as AWS tags for the log group
log_group_name (string, optional)
Name of log group to store logs
log_group_name_key (string, optional)
Specified field of records as log group name
log_rejected_request (string, optional)
Output rejected_log_events_info request log.
Default: false
log_stream_name (string, optional)
Name of log stream to store logs
log_stream_name_key (string, optional)
Specified field of records as log stream name
max_events_per_batch (int, optional)
Maximum number of events to send at once
Default: 10000
max_message_length (int, optional)
Maximum length of the message
message_keys (string, optional)
Keys to send messages as events
put_log_events_disable_retry_limit (bool, optional)
If true, put_log_events_retry_limit will be ignored
put_log_events_retry_limit (int, optional)
Maximum count of retry (if exceeding this, the events will be discarded)
put_log_events_retry_wait (string, optional)
Time before retrying PutLogEvents (retry interval increases exponentially like put_log_events_retry_wait * (2 ^ retry_count))
region (string, required)
AWS Region
remove_log_group_aws_tags_key (string, optional)
Remove field specified by log_group_aws_tags_key
remove_log_group_name_key (string, optional)
Remove field specified by log_group_name_key
remove_log_stream_name_key (string, optional)
Remove field specified by log_stream_name_key
remove_retention_in_days (string, optional)
Remove field specified by retention_in_days
retention_in_days (string, optional)
Use to set the expiry time for log group when created with auto_create_stream. (default to no expiry)
retention_in_days_key (string, optional)
Use specified field of records as retention period
slow_flush_log_threshold (string, optional)
The threshold for chunk flush performance check. Parameter type is float, not time, default: 20.0 (seconds) If chunk flush takes longer time than this threshold, fluentd logs warning message and increases metric fluentd_output_status_slow_flush_count.
use_tag_as_group (bool, optional)
Use tag as a group name
use_tag_as_stream (bool, optional)
Use tag as a stream name