Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

AssociateKmsKey

Associates the specified AWS KMS key with the specified log group.

Associating a KMS key with a log group overrides any existing associations between the log group and a KMS key. After a KMS key is associated with a log group, all newly ingested data for the log group is encrypted using the KMS key. This association is stored as long as the data encrypted with the KMS keyis still within CloudWatch Logs. This enables CloudWatch Logs to decrypt this data whenever it is requested.

Important

CloudWatch Logs supports only symmetric KMS keys. Do not use an associate an asymmetric KMS key with your log group. For more information, see Using Symmetric and Asymmetric Keys.

It can take up to 5 minutes for this operation to take effect.

If you attempt to associate a KMS key with a log group but the KMS key does not exist or the KMS key is disabled, you receive an InvalidParameterException error.

Request Syntax


{
   "kmsKeyId": "string",
   "logGroupName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

kmsKeyId

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the KMS key to use when encrypting log data. This must be a symmetric KMS key. For more information, see Amazon Resource Names and Using Symmetric and Asymmetric Keys.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

logGroupName

The name of the log group.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: [\.\-_/#A-Za-z0-9]+

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidParameterException

A parameter is specified incorrectly.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationAbortedException

Multiple concurrent requests to update the same resource were in conflict.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The specified resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceUnavailableException

The service cannot complete the request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

To associate a log group with aKMS key

The following example associates the specified log group with the specified KMS key.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: logs.<region>.<domain>
X-Amz-Date: <DATE>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=content-type;date;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target;x-amzn-requestid, Signature=<Signature>
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
X-Amz-Target: Logs_20140328.AssociateKmsKey
{
  "logGroupName": "my-log-group",
  "kmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/abcd1234-a123-456a-a12b-a123b456c789"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <RequestId>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Date: <Date>