Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article discusses how using structured logging with Amazon CloudWatch can accelerate troubleshooting and improve observability for your applications.
Specifically, the article covers:
- What structured logging is and its benefits in simplifying log analysis
- How to use Embedded Metric Format (EMF) to extract actionable metrics from structured logs
- Using CloudWatch Logs Insights to interactively query and visualize structured logs for root cause analysis
- Leveraging CloudWatch Contributor Insights to monitor high-cardinality patterns and anomalies in structured logs
- An end-to-end example showing how these CloudWatch capabilities work together to troubleshoot an issue with a sample application
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