AWS Cloudwatch cloudwatch allows to take a peek into your aws applications, their logs and other metrices. Apart from the centralized logging (kibana,loggly) where we limit retention duration (cost factor), cloudwatch provides a way to do pay-per-volume query operations. AWS CLI installation on mac configuration aws configure Setting up AWS keys Although cloudwatch comes with a nice GUI, we can leverage CLI to automate and ease up some tasks. Here is a use case for filtering logs and downloading them for further analysis.

What is ELK stack? Instead of writing about what exactly ELK is, let me state the need and use cases for it. Log aggregation and efficient searching In a very naive scenario you have one server and lots of log messages generated by your application and system which are crucial to look at once something goes wrong. Now there are basically two problems with it: Manually digging through a log file is really an anachronism.