AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Add custom logs to CloudWatch?

Question

How to add custom logs to CloudWatch? Defaults logs are sent but how to add a custom one?

I already added a file like this: (in .ebextensions)

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Answer 1

Both bundlelogs.d and taillogs.d are logs retrieved from management console. What you want to do is extend default logs (e.g. eb-activity.log) to CloudWatch Logs. In order to extend the log stream, you need to add another configuration under /etc/awslogs/config/. The configuration should follow the Agent Configuration file Format.

I've successfully extended my logs for my custom ubuntu/nginx/php platform. Here is my extension file FYI. Here is an official sample FYI.

In your case, it could be like

files:
  "/etc/awslogs/config/my_app_log.conf" :
    mode: "000600"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      [/var/app/current/logs/xxx.log]
      log_group_name = `{"Fn::Join":["/", ["/aws/elasticbeanstalk", { "Ref":"AWSEBEnvironmentName" }, "var/app/current/logs/xxx.log"]]}`
      log_stream_name = {instance_id}
      file = /var/app/current/logs/xxx.log*