CloudWatch Contributor Insights

• Analyzes CloudWatch Logs to produce time series data on top contributors.

• Identifies the Top-N contributors, the count of unique contributors, and their activity trends over time.

Key Benefits

• Pinpoint who or what is affecting system performance.

• Quickly detect:
• Misbehaving hosts
• Heavy network consumers
• URLs or API calls generating most errors

Supported Sources

• Works with any AWS-generated log source, such as:
• VPC Flow Logs
• Route 53 DNS logs
• Other CloudWatch Logs data

Configuration

• Create custom rules to match your log patterns.

• Use AWS sample rules or built-in rules for common metrics.

• Processes existing CloudWatch Logs to generate insights without additional logging changes.