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Analyzing Logs With Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 88
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Description

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights allows developers to interactively search and analyze log data. CloudWatch Logs Insights can be used to query logs from AWS resources such as AWS Lambda functions, AWS CloudTrail, and more. These queries can help developers more effectively troubleshoot issues and discover insights into their systems and applications.

In this lab, you will be introduced to the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights service and learn how to run and save queries in the CloudWatch Logs Insights console.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Understand the purpose of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
  • Explore the CloudWatch Logs Insights query syntax
  • Run queries with CloudWatch Logs Insights

Intended audience

  • Candidates for AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • Cloud Developers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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Covered topics

Amazon CloudWatch
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Lab steps

Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
Running Queries With CloudWatch Logs Insights

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