cloudwatch2loggly

Sends logs from Cloudwatch to Loggly using Lamda function

More information about AWS Lambda and Loggly

• http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
• https://www.loggly.com/

Get the code and prepare it for the uploading to AWS

• Clone the git repo

git clone https://github.com/psquickitjayant/cloudwatch2loggly.git
cd cloudwatch2loggly

##Open the cloudwatch2loggly.js and provide the following information in it

• Your AWS accout details

//AWS keys configuration
var awsConfiguration = {
  accessKeyId : 'xxx',
  secretAccessKey : 'xxx',
  region : 'xxx'
};

• Your Loggly customer token

//loggly url, token and tag configuration
var logglyConfiguration = {
  url : 'http://logs-01.loggly.com/bulk',
  customerToken : 'xxx',
  tags : 'cloudwatch2loggly'
};

• Install required npm packages.

npm install

• zip up your code

zip -r cloudwatch2loggly.zip cloudwatch2loggly.js node_modules

The resulting zip (cloudwatch2loggly.zip) is what you will upload to AWS.

Setting up AWS

For all of the AWS setup, I used the AWS console following this example. Below, you will find a high-level description of how to do this. I also found this blog post on how to set things up using the command line tools.

Create and upload the cloudwatch2loggly function in the AWS Console

1. Create lambda function
2. https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home
3. Click "Create a Lambda function" button. (Choose "Upload a .ZIP file") * Name: cloudwatch2loggly * Upload lambda function (zip file you made above.) * Handler:* cloudwatch2loggly.handler * Set Role : S3 Execution Role * Set Timeout to 2 minutes
4. Go to your Lamda function and select the "Event sources" tab * Click on Add Event Source * Event Source Type : Scheduled Event * Name : Provide any customized name. e.g. Cloudwatch2Loggly Event Source * Description: Invokes Lambda function in every 5 minutes * Schedule expression : rate(5 minutes) * Enable Event Source : Enable Now Now click on submit and wait for the events to occur in Loggly