Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Big Data Blog
This article explains how to set up a pipeline to deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to an Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collection in near real-time, enabling log analysis and visualization.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and architecture
- Prerequisites for setting up the solution
- Detailed step-by-step instructions for deploying the solution, including:
- Creating roles and policies
- Configuring the OpenSearch Serverless collection
- Creating an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline
- Creating a Lambda function for log processing
- Setting up a CloudWatch Logs subscription filter
- Testing and verification of the deployed solution
- Clean-up instructions for removing the deployed resources
- Conclusion and further exploration suggestions
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