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2017-09-15
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pandeiro20:09:46

Curious to hear any opinions on approaches to log aggregation (sys/app/custom) from AWS-hosted systems; anyone using CloudWatch? Amazon's hosted ES? Trying to understand the benefits/drawbacks to using Amazon's offerings vs other service providers (eg Splunk, Sumo Logic).

jakemcc15:09:21

CloudWatch logs works fine. Generally pretty straightforward to setup. It is what I would start with again if I were setting up log aggregation from scratch. It works well enough.

jakemcc15:09:25

I haven’t used ES + things on top for log aggregation before though. I have used Splunk and really enjoyed it too. I moved to CloudWatch when I started a new company and wanted to get something up and running that had minimal moving parts and fit well with the AWS ecosystem. I’d make the same choice again.

timgilbert23:09:25

At my company we are using http://logz.io (basically hosted ELK stack) for aggregation, it works fine but there are a bunch of deployment hoops to jump through to get it to work on AWS that I'd just as soon avoid. I find the CloudWatch UI to be aesthetically not very appealing. I've heard good things from other people though.

pandeiro16:09:57

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.