Amazon CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Enhancements

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now enriches log events with resource tags, making it easier to filter, search, and analyze logs by metadata such as team ownership, environment, cost center, or application name.

With tag enrichment, Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds resource tags directly to your log events at ingestion time. You can immediately use tags in log queries to scope your analysis without building custom pipelines or manually adding context to your application logs.

What to do

• Enable resource tags on telemetry in the Amazon CloudWatch Settings.
• Use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS SDKs to enrich your log events with existing AWS resource tags.

Tag enrichment is available in all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv). There is no additional cost for this feature.

Source: AWS release notes

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