README.md

Cloud Watch Logs hook for Logrus

Use this hook to send your Logrus logs to Amazon's Cloud Watch Logs.

Options

The formatter has options available to it. Please check the godoc.

Example

Look in the examples directory for more examples.

package main

import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"

	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
	"github.com/kdar/logrus-cloudwatchlogs"
)

func main() {
	key := os.Getenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
	secret := os.Getenv("AWS_SECRET_KEY")
	group := os.Getenv("AWS_CLOUDWATCHLOGS_GROUP_NAME")
	stream := os.Getenv("AWS_CLOUDWATCHLOGS_STREAM_NAME")

	// logs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
	cred := credentials.NewStaticCredentials(key, secret, "")
	cfg := aws.NewConfig().WithRegion("us-east-1").WithCredentials(cred)

	hook, err := logrus_cloudwatchlogs.NewHook(group, stream, cfg)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	l := logrus.New()
	l.Hooks.Add(hook)
	l.Out = ioutil.Discard
	l.Formatter = logrus_cloudwatchlogs.NewProdFormatter()

	l.WithFields(logrus.Fields{
		"event": "testevent",
		"topic": "testtopic",
		"key":   "testkey",
	}).Fatal("Some fatal event")
}