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Fluent Bit Plugin for CloudWatch Logs

A Fluent Bit output plugin for CloudWatch Logs

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If you think you’ve found a potential security issue, please do not post it in the Issues. Instead, please follow the instructions here or email AWS security directly at [email protected].

Usage

Run make to build ./bin/cloudwatch.so. Then use with Fluent Bit:

./fluent-bit -e ./cloudwatch.so -i cpu \
-o cloudwatch \
-p "region=us-west-2" \
-p "log_group_name=fluent-bit-cloudwatch" \
-p "log_stream_name=testing" \
-p "auto_create_group=true"

Plugin Options

  • region: The AWS region.
  • log_group_name: The name of the CloudWatch Log Group that you want log records sent to. This value allows a template in the form of $(variable). See section Templating Log Group and Stream Names for more. Fluent Bit will create missing log groups if auto_create_group is set, and will throw an error if it does not have permission.
  • log_stream_name: The name of the CloudWatch Log Stream that you want log records sent to. This value allows a template in the form of $(variable). See section Templating Log Group and Stream Names for more.
  • default_log_group_name: This required variable is the fallback in case any variables in log_group_name fails to parse. Defaults to fluentbit-default.
  • default_log_stream_name: This required variable is the fallback in case any variables in log_stream_name fails to parse. Defaults to /fluentbit-default.
  • log_stream_prefix: (deprecated) Prefix for the Log Stream name. Setting this to prefix- is the same as setting log_stream_name = prefix-$(tag).
  • log_key: By default, the whole log record will be sent to CloudWatch. If you specify a key name with this option, then only the value of that key will be sent to CloudWatch. For example, if you are using the Fluentd Docker log driver, you can specify log_key log and only the log message will be sent to CloudWatch.
  • log_format: An optional parameter that can be used to tell CloudWatch the format of the data. A value of json/emf enables CloudWatch to extract custom metrics embedded in a JSON payload. See the Embedded Metric Format.
  • role_arn: ARN of an IAM role to assume (for cross account access).
  • auto_create_group: Automatically create log groups (and add tags). Valid values are "true" or "false" (case insensitive). Defaults to false. If you use dynamic variables in your log group name, you may need this to be true.
  • new_log_group_tags: Comma/equal delimited string of tags to include with auto created log groups. Example: "tag=val,cooltag2=my other value"
  • log_retention_days: If set to a number greater than zero, and newly create log group's retention policy is set to this many days.
  • endpoint: Specify a custom endpoint for the CloudWatch Logs API.
  • sts_endpoint: Specify a custom endpoint for the STS API; used to assume your custom role provided with role_arn.
  • credentials_endpoint: Specify a custom HTTP endpoint to pull credentials from. The HTTP response body should look like the following:
{
    "AccessKeyId": "ACCESS_KEY_ID",
    "Expiration": "EXPIRATION_DATE",
    "SecretAccessKey": "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY",
    "Token": "SECURITY_TOKEN_STRING"
}

Note: The plugin will always create the log stream, if it does not exist.

Permissions

This plugin requires the following permissions:

  • CreateLogGroup (useful when using dynamic groups)
  • CreateLogStream
  • DescribeLogStreams
  • PutLogEvents
  • PutRetentionPolicy (if log_retention_days is set > 0)

Credentials

This plugin uses the AWS SDK Go, and uses its default credential provider chain. If you are using the plugin on Amazon EC2 or Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, the plugin will use your EC2 instance role or ECS Task role permissions or EKS IAM Roles for Service Accounts for pods. The plugin can also retrieve credentials from a shared credentials file, or from the standard AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN environment variables.

Environment Variables

  • FLB_LOG_LEVEL: Set the log level for the plugin. Valid values are: debug, info, and error (case insensitive). Default is info. Note: Setting log level in the Fluent Bit Configuration file using the Service key will not affect the plugin log level (because the plugin is external).
  • SEND_FAILURE_TIMEOUT: Allows you to configure a timeout if the plugin can not send logs to CloudWatch. The timeout is specified as a Golang duration, for example: 5m30s. If the plugin has failed to make any progress for the given period of time, then it will exit and kill Fluent Bit. This is useful in scenarios where you want your logging solution to fail fast if it has been misconfigured (i.e. network or credentials have not been set up to allow it to send to CloudWatch).

Templating Log Group and Stream Names

A template in the form of $(variable) can be set in log_group_name or log_stream_name. variable can be a map key name in the log message. To access sub-values in the map use the form $(variable['subkey']). Also, it can be replaced with special values to insert the tag, ECS metadata or a random string in the name.

Special Values:

  • $(tag) references the full tag name, $(tag[0]) and $(tag[1]) are the first and second values of log tag split on periods. You may access any member by index, 0 through 9.
  • $(uuid) will insert a random string in the names. The random string is generated automatically with format: 4 bytes of time (seconds) + 16 random bytes. It is created when the plugin starts up and uniquely identifies the output - which means that until Fluent Bit is restarted, it will be the same. If you have multiple CloudWatch outputs, each one will get a unique UUID.
  • If your container is running in ECS, $(variable) can be set as $(ecs_task_id), $(ecs_cluster) or $(ecs_task_arn). It will set ECS metadata into log_group_name or log_stream_name.

Here is an example for fluent-bit.conf:

[INPUT]
    Name        dummy
    Tag         dummy.data
    Dummy {"pam": {"item": "soup", "item2":{"subitem": "rice"}}}

[OUTPUT]
    Name cloudwatch
    Match   *
    region us-east-1
    log_group_name fluent-bit-cloudwatch-$(uuid)-$(tag)
    log_stream_name from-fluent-bit-$(pam['item2']['subitem'])-$(ecs_task_id)-$(ecs_cluster)
    auto_create_group true

And here is the resulting log stream name and log group name:

log_group_name fluent-bit-cloudwatch-1jD7P6bbSRtbc9stkWjJZYerO6s-dummy.data
log_stream_name from-fluent-bit-rice-37e873f6-37b4-42a7-af47-eac7275c6152-ecs-local-cluster

Fluent Bit Versions

This plugin has been tested with Fluent Bit 1.2.0+. It may not work with older Fluent Bit versions. We recommend using the latest version of Fluent Bit as it will contain the newest features and bug fixes.

Example Fluent Bit Config File

[INPUT]
    Name        forward
    Listen      0.0.0.0
    Port        24224

[OUTPUT]
    Name cloudwatch
    Match   *
    region us-east-1
    log_group_name fluent-bit-cloudwatch
    log_stream_prefix from-fluent-bit-
    auto_create_group true

AWS for Fluent Bit

We distribute a container image with Fluent Bit and these plugins.

GitHub

github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit

Docker Hub

amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit

Amazon ECR

You can use our SSM Public Parameters to find the Amazon ECR image URI in your region:

aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path /aws/service/aws-for-fluent-bit/

For more see our docs.

License

This library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.