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CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Interactive log analytics tool for searching and analyzing log data in CloudWatch Logs.
- Uses a purpose-built query language for:
- Filtering events
- Extracting and aggregating fields
- Calculating statistics
- Sorting and limiting results
- Automatically discovers fields from AWS service logs and JSON-formatted events.
- Key features:
- Query multiple Log Groups at once, even across AWS accounts
- Save queries and add them to CloudWatch Dashboards
- Visualize query results directly in the console
- Example use cases:
- Find a specific IP in access logs
- Count occurrences of
"ERROR" - Track request latency trends
- Important note: This is a query engine for stored logs, not a real-time stream processor.