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Chris F
Chris F

Reputation: 16673

Creating an AWS log group?

I having issues creating an AWS log group that belongs to a bigger CloudFormation template. So just for testing, I'm creating just the log group with the following template

Parameters:
  LogGroupName:
    Type: String
    Description: 'cloudwatch log group name'
    Default: "test-log-group"
  LogGroupRetention:
    Type: Number
    Description: Retention period for log groups in cloudwatch
    Default: 30
  DelPolicy:
    Type: String
    Description: 'Deletion policy'
    Default: "Retain"

Resources:
  LLGO1WY:
    Type: 'AWS::Logs::LogGroup'
    Properties:
      awslogs-region: !Ref 'AWS::Region'
      LogGroupName: !Ref LogGroupName
      RetentionInDays: !Ref LogGroupRetention
      DeletionPolicy: !Ref DelPolicy

When I import the template during the manual stack creation ("Create Stack" button), I get the following when I get to the "Import Overview" page.

There was an error creating this change set
The following resources to import [LLGO1WY] must have DeletionPolicy attribute specified in the template.

If you look the documentation for AWS::Logs::LogGroup, it doesn't even have a DeletionPolicy defined as a property. Note that if I remove that property, I get the same error. Any clues?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4224

Answers (1)

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238139

AWS::Logs::LogGroup does not have DeletionPolicy property. DeletionPolicy is a top level attribute which you can't parametrize.

I guess you wanted maybe:

Resources:
  LLGO1WY:
    Type: 'AWS::Logs::LogGroup'
    DeletionPolicy: Retain # <--- This is not property and must be here
    Properties:
      awslogs-region: !Ref 'AWS::Region'
      LogGroupName: !Ref LogGroupName
      RetentionInDays: !Ref LogGroupRetention

Upvotes: 2

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