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Grok - Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Grok

This processor uses pattern matching to parse and structure unstructured data. This processor can also extract fields from log messages.

For more information about this processor including examples, see grok in the CloudWatch Logs User Guide.

Contents

match

The grok pattern to match against the log event. For a list of supported grok patterns, see Supported grok patterns.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Required: Yes

source

The path to the field in the log event that you want to parse. If you omit this value, the whole log message is parsed.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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