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Archimedes Trajano
Asked: 2020-10-17 11:37:04 +0800 CST

How do you get a metric of cloudwatch log group size?

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I want to track and alert if my logs go awry. But I can't find a way of tracking the stored bytes for a log group. Is it possible to even add that as a metric?

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    The supported Metrics for CloudWatch log groups that might suit your use case are IncomingBytes and IncomingLogEvents for event ingestion.

    If you want to monitor event forwarding to your subscribers as well there are metrics available too.

    See full documentation on supported metrics: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CloudWatch-Logs-Monitoring-CloudWatch-Metrics.html

    The actual log group size seems to only be available via API decribe-log-groups.

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