AWS CLOUDWATCH LOGSIGN CONFIGURATION

Overview

Amazon Web Services, is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.

Prerequisites

Logsign 6.3.44+ versions support this integration.

Configure On AWS

Forwarding settings are completed as follows:

  1. Log in to your AWS console.

  2. Click on "Security credentials" in the top right corner where your profile is shown.

  1. In the Access keys part, click on “Create access key”.

  2. This is how the Access key is generated. In addition, the Secret access key is generated once and

    can be downloaded as a csv if you want to see it later.

5. Go to the page by typing "CloudWatch" in the Search section. Select "Region" at the top right as “eu-north-1” and copy all the information.

6. From the left side menu of CloudWatch, Log Groups is shown under Logs.

7. Click on Log Groups and below are Log Streams. Log stream names are also taken from their names.

 

Configure On Logsign

  1. Login to your Logsign UI.

  2. Click Settings > Data Collection > +Device.

  3. Define the settings as follows:

    • ●  Select the API > AWS CloudWatch.

    • ●  Access Key: Define the Access Key.

    • ●  Secret Key: Define the Secret Key.

    • ●  Region: Define the Region.

    • ●  Log Stream Name: Define the Log Stream Name.

    • ●  Log Group Name: Define the Log Group Name.

    • ●  Period: Specify the period.

    • ●  Data Policy: If you have a Data Policy to add for the source, please add it.

    • ●  Check Health: If there is a Health Check Period you want to define, click Check Health.

    • ●  Device Name: Define the Device Name.

    • ●  Tags: If you want to add any tags, please define it.

    • ●  Roles: If you want to specify any roles, please select it.

  4. Click the Save button.

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