Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Now Supports Network Load Balancer Access Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer (NLB) access logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns. You can now analyze NLB access logs directly in CloudWatch to gain insights into client connections, traffic distribution, and connection status, helping you identify and troubleshoot network issues faster.

With this CloudWatch Logs integration, you can track detailed access patterns using CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, create metric filters for monitoring, and review traffic patterns in real time using Live Tail. NLB access logs can be configured through the integrations tab of your network load balancer in AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. You can also configure delivery of NLB access logs to Amazon Data Firehose or Amazon S3 with support for Apache Parquet format.

NLB access logs delivery to CloudWatch is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions where Network Load Balancer and CloudWatch are available. NLB access logs are charged as vended logs when delivered to CloudWatch Logs and Data Firehose, while delivery to Amazon S3 is free (Parquet conversion is charged at $0.035/GB - N. Virginia).

What to do

• Configure NLB access logs through the integrations tab of your network load balancer in AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.
• Analyze NLB access logs directly in CloudWatch using Logs Insights queries.
• Create metric filters for monitoring and review traffic patterns in real time using Live Tail.
• Configure delivery of NLB access logs to Amazon Data Firehose or Amazon S3 with support for Apache Parquet format.

Source: AWS release notes

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