Amazon CloudWatch Operations

External

• Amazon CloudWatch Resource Types Reference

Internal

• Amazon CloudWatch

Create a Log Group

Create a Log Group with AWS CLI

aws logs create-log-group

Create a Log Group with Amazon Console

CloudWatch -> Logs -> Actions -> Create Log Group

Create a Log Group with CloudFormation

AWS::Logs::LogGroup

AWS::Logs::LogGroup

The CloudFormation declaration for a log group.

Resources:
  MyServiceLogGroup:
    Type: AWS::Logs::LogGroup
    Properties:
      LogGroupName: log-group-name
      RetentionInDays: number-of-days-as-integer

View Logs

CloudWatch -> Log Groups -> <log-group-name> -> <log-stream-name>