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Deleting a Metric Filter

A policy is identified by its name and the log group it belongs to.

To delete a metric filter using the CloudWatch console

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Logs.

3. In the contents pane, in the Metric Filter column, choose the metric filter.

4. On the Logs Metric Filters screen, in the metric filter, choose Delete Filter.

5. When prompted for confirmation, choose Yes, Delete.

To delete a metric filter using the AWS CLI

At a command prompt, run the following command:

aws logs delete-metric-filter --log-group-name MyApp/access.log \
 --filter-name MyFilterName