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nhouser9
nhouser9

Reputation: 6780

How to retreive only the logs I care about from AWS Beanstalk

My Issue

I just deployed my first application to AWS Beanstalk. I have logging in my application using logback. When I download all logs from AWS, I get a huge bundle:

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Not only that, but it is pretty annoying to log in, navigate to my instance, download a big zip file, extract it, navigate to my log, open it, then parse for the info I want.

The Question

I really only care about a single one of the log files on AWS - the one I set up my application to create.

What is the easiest way to view only the log file I care about? Best solution would display only the one log file I care about in a web console somewhere, but I don't know if that is possible in AWS. If not, then what is the closest I can get?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 276

Answers (1)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 5501

You can use the EB console to display logs, or the eb logs command-line tool. By default, each will only show the last 100 lines of each log file. You could also script ssh or scp to just retrieve a single log file.

However, the best solution is probably to publish your application log file to a service like Papertrail or Loggly. If and when you move to a clustered environment, retrieving and searching log files across multiple machines will be a headache unless you're aggregating your logs somehow.

Upvotes: 1

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