cwlogs-s3

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Task for exporting CloudWatch logs to S3. Useful for then running logs through EMR for analysis. Designed to be run via AWS Data Pipeline.

Installation

$ gem install cwlogs-s3

Usage

NAME
    cwlogs-s3 -

USAGE
    cwlogs-s3 [options] [arguments]

OPTIONS
    --group -g <s>           - Log group name
                               - Log group is required
    --period -p <s>          - Period to export (default: 1 day)
                               - Cannot parse period
    --ending -e <s>          - Time when period ends (default: now)
                               - Cannot parse ending
    --s3path -s <s>          - Destination S3 path
                               - S3 path is required
    --region -r <s>          - AWS region (default: us-east-1)
    --verbosity <s>          - Verbosity level of output for current execution
                               (e.g. INFO, DEBUG) (default: WARN)
    --error-output-format <s - The format to use when outputting errors (e.g. b
    >                          asic, advanced) (default: basic)
    --help -h                - Show this message

For example:

cwlogs-s3 -g "my-app-http-access" -p "3 days" -e "now" -s "s3://mybucket/mypath/"

Which will export all logs in the my-app-http-access from the last 3 days ending now to a bucket called my-log-bucket.

--period Can be formatted according to Chronic Duration: https://github.com/hpoydar/chronic_duration

--ending Can be formatted according to Chronic: https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/Tim-B/cwlogs-s3/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request