Logs only updated on redeploy

Question

Hi, I have a single container on elastic beanstalk.  
It's a .net core 2.2 application deployed with a docker container running microsoft/dotnet:2.2-aspnetcore-runtime.  
  
I've been trying to setup logging to cloudwatch, and I went into   
Elastic Beanstalk -> Environments -> my-environment -> Configuration  
and enabled "log streaming" (rotate logs is disabled)  
  
I could now see my log's in cloudwatch, and I can see the log statements from my application in:   
/aws/elasticbeanstalk/my-environment/var/log/eb-docker/containers/eb-current-app/stdouterr.log  
  
The problem is, that they are never updated. The only time more data is put into the logs, is if I redeploy the application (even after 12H, there's still nothing new in the logs).  
  
I've tried adding a file:  
.ebextensions/logs.config with the content:  
  
option_settings:  
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
    option_name: StreamLogs  
    value: true  
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
    option_name: DeleteOnTerminate  
    value: false  
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
    option_name: RetentionInDays  
    value: 7

But it's the same. The content in the logs is only updated when I redeploy the application.  
  
What am I missing? Shouldn't the logs be updated every 5 minutes or so? There isn't a lot of traffic on the site. I've been reading about file_fingerprint_lines and setting awslogs as driver on docker, but can't seem to get any of that to work.   
  
I don't have much experience with EBS or Cloudwatch, so any help is highly appreciated.  
Thanks

Answer

I got this solved, by having this in my .config file:  
  
    option_settings:  
      - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
        option_name: StreamLogs  
        value: true  
      - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
        option_name: DeleteOnTerminate  
        value: false  
      - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:cloudwatch:logs  
        option_name: RetentionInDays  
        value: 14  
      
    files:  
      "/etc/awslogs/config/stdout.conf":  
        mode: "000755"  
        owner: root  
        group: root  
        content: |  
          \[/var/log/containers/docker-stdout]  
          log_group_name=/aws/elasticbeanstalk/`{ "Ref" : "AWSEBEnvironmentName" }`/docker-stdout.log  
          log_stream_name={instance_id}  
          file=/var/log/eb-docker/containers/eb-current-app/*-stdouterr.log  
  
The answer itself is actually not as interesting, as how I got it debugged (posted here in case it will help others):  
  
1) SSH into the instance by using `eb ssh`  
2) Found the log: /var/log/awslogs.log and saw the error: `cwlogs.push.stream - WARNING - 6563 - Thread-1 - No file is found with given path '/var/log/containers/*-stdouterr.log'`  
3) I followed the path (/var/log/containers) only to find that the folder structure did not exist. From the logs that was send to cloudwatch, I could see the path was: `/var/log/eb-docker/containers/eb-current-app/` which I checked, and found the log files.  
4) From some of the other questions that I've been reading, I could see that the configuration for awslogs (which is the agent sending output to aws) was located in: `/etc/awslogs/config/stdout.conf`. Looking in this file, I saw the path `/var/log/containers/*-stdouterr.log`  
5) I changed the path to `/var/log/eb-docker/containers/eb-current-app/*-stdouterr.log` and restarted the awslogs service `sudo service awslogs restart`  
  
Now I could see the log being updated.  
Why it did send logs to cloudwatch on deploy, I don't know, but the above fixed the issue

Logs only updated on redeploy

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