Amazon CloudWatch Concepts
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
External
Internal
Namespace
Metric
Log Source
Log Stream
A log stream is a sequence of log events that share the same source.
Log Group
A log group is a group of log streams that share the same retention, monitoring and access control settings. Streams can be associated with groups. There is no limit on the number of log streams that belong to one log group. Log groups are organized in a flat space in a region, and that is probably a good practice to name them based on the following convention:
/<environment-name>/<service-name>