Examples of what you can do with Amazon CloudWatch and your logs are as follows:
- Real-time application and system monitoring: You can use CloudWatch logs to monitor applications and systems using log data in near real-time. For example, CloudWatch Logs can track the number of errors that occur in your application logs and send you a notification whenever the rate of errors exceed a threshold that you specify. Amazon CloudWatch uses your log data for monitoring; so no code changes are required.
- Long-term log retention: You can use CloudWatch Logs to store your log data for as long as you need in a highly durable and cost-effective storage without worrying about hard drives running out of space. The CloudWatch Logs Agent makes ...
