Document history
The following table describes important changes in each release of the CloudWatch Logs User Guide, beginning in June 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
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CloudWatchLogsReadOnlyAccess policy updated |
CloudWatch Logs added the | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatchLogsFullAccess policy updated |
CloudWatch Logs added the | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds log pattern analysis | CloudWatch Logs now scans for patterns in log events every time you perform a CloudWatch Logs Insights query. For more information, see Pattern analysis. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds log anomaly detection | You can create a log anomaly detector for a log group. The anomaly detector scans the log events ingested into the log group and finds anomalies in the log data. For more information, see Log anomaly detection. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds compare feature | You can now use CloudWatch Logs Insights to compare changes in your log events over time. . For more information, see Compare (diff) with previous time ranges. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds a new log class | CloudWatch Logs supports two classes of log groups so that you can have a cost-effective option for logs that you access infrequently, and you also have a full-featured option for logs that require real-time monitoring or other features. For more information, see Log classes. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs Insights supports natural language query generation | CloudWatch Logs Insights supports natural language to generate and update queries. For more information, see Use natural language to generate and update CloudWatch Logs Insights queries. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds regular expression filter pattern syntax support for Live Tail | You can now further customize your search and match operations to meet your needs with flexible regular expressions within Live Tail filter patterns. For more information, see Filter pattern syntax in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | November 13, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs adds regular expression filter pattern syntax support for metric filters, subscription filters, and filter log events | You can now further customize your search and match operations to meet your needs with flexible regular expressions within filter patterns. For more information, see Filter pattern syntax in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | September 5, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds a pattern command | You can now use pattern in your CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to automatically cluster your log data into patterns. A pattern is shared text structure that recurs among your log fields. For more information, see pattern in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | July 17, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds a dedup command | You can now use dedup in your CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to remove duplicate results based on specific values in fields that you specify. For more information, see dedup in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | June 20, 2023 |
Account-level data protection policies | You can now set data protection policies at the account level. These account-level policies can audit and mask sensitive information in log events in all log groups in the account. For more information, see Help protect sensitive log data with masking in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | June 8, 2023 |
Live Tail feature added | CloudWatch Logs added Live Tail ability, so you can scan logs as they are ingested to help with troubleshooting. You can optionally filter the displayed stream of log events based on specified terms, and also highlight log events that have specified terms. For more information, see Use live tail to view logs in near real time. | June 6, 2023 |
CloudWatchLogsReadOnlyAccess policy updated | CloudWatch Logs added permissions to CloudWatchLogsReadOnlyAccess. The | June 6, 2023 |
CloudWatch Logs Insights released | You can use CloudWatch Logs Insights to interactively search and analyze your log data. For more information see Analyze Log Data with CloudWatch Logs Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide | November 27, 2018 |
Support for Amazon VPC endpoints | You can now establish a private connection between your VPC and CloudWatch Logs. For more information, see Using CloudWatch Logs with Interface VPC Endpoints in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide. | June 28, 2018 |
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User's Guide.
| Change | Description | Release date |
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Interface VPC endpoints |
In some Regions, you can use an interface VPC endpoint to keep traffic between your Amazon VPC and CloudWatch Logs from leaving the Amazon network. For more information see Using CloudWatch Logs with interface VPC endpoints. |
March 7, 2018 |
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Route 53 DNS query logs |
You can use CloudWatch Logs to store logs about the DNS queries received by Route 53. For more information see What is Amazon CloudWatch Logs? or Logging DNS Queries in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide. |
September 7, 2017 |
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Tag log groups |
You can use tags to categorize your log groups. For more information, see Tag log groups in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
December 13, 2016 |
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Console improvements |
You can navigate from metrics graphs to the associated log groups. For more information, see Pivot from metrics to logs. |
November 7, 2016 |
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Console usability improvements |
Improved the experience to make it easier to search, filter, and troubleshoot. For example, you can now filter your log data to a date and time range. For more information, see View log data sent to CloudWatch Logs. |
August 29, 2016 |
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Added AWS CloudTrail support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs and new CloudWatch Logs metrics |
Added AWS CloudTrail support for CloudWatch Logs. For more information, see Logging Amazon CloudWatch Logs API calls in AWS CloudTrail. |
March 10, 2016 |
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Added support for CloudWatch Logs export to Amazon S3 |
Added support for exporting CloudWatch Logs data to Amazon S3. For more information, see Exporting log data to Amazon S3. |
December 7, 2015 |
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Added support for AWS CloudTrail logged events in Amazon CloudWatch Logs |
You can create alarms in CloudWatch and receive notifications of particular API activity as captured by CloudTrail and use the notification to perform troubleshooting. |
November 10, 2014 |
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Added support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs |
You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your system, application, and custom log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or other sources. You can then retrieve the associated log data from CloudWatch Logs using the Amazon CloudWatch console, the CloudWatch Logs commands in the AWS CLI, or the CloudWatch Logs SDK. For more information, see What is Amazon CloudWatch Logs?. |
July 10, 2014 |
