Download Cloudwatch Log Streams

Question

I am looking to for how to download the log stream data for one of my API gateways. I have found a few resources that seem to answer this issue but none make too much sense to me so I figured I would ask again. Ideally would be downloaded as a text file or possible an extremely nested json. The form it is in when downloaded does not really matter to me, just that I can get it onto my local machine.

Solutions that could be run from VSCode using Python would be ideal but open to other options. Picture included to show the way log stream looks.

CloudwatchLogStream

Solutions that could be run from VSCode using Python would be ideal but open to other options.
Picture included to show the way log stream looks.

![CloudwatchLogStream](/media/postImages/original/IMs4IGxfYfR9CTwZ4vkg25kQ)

Answer

Hi,

To download the log events to your local machine, specifically using Python, you can use the "get_log_events" API using boto3 to run as a script. You can then write the response received to a file (in any format of your choice).

You can also choose to simply use AWS CLI to achieve the same [2].

References: \
[1] https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/logs/client/get_log_events.html \
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/get-log-events.html#examples

Thanks, \
Atul

Download Cloudwatch Log Streams

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