Getting Volume Gateway health logs with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to get information about the health of your Volume Gateway and related resources. You can use these logs to monitor your gateway for errors that it encounters. In addition, you can use Amazon CloudWatch subscription filters to automate processing of the log information in real time. For more information, see Real-time Processing of Log Data with Subscriptions in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

For example, suppose that your gateway is deployed in a cluster activated with VMware High Availability (HA) and you need to know about any errors. You can configure a CloudWatch log group to monitor your gateway and get notified when your gateway encounters an error. You can either configure the group when you are activating the gateway or after your gateway is activated and up and running. For information about how to configure a CloudWatch log group when activating a gateway, see Configure your Volume Gateway. For general information about CloudWatch log groups, see Working with Log Groups and Log Streams in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

For information about how to troubleshoot and fix these types of errors, see Troubleshooting volume issues.

The following procedure shows you how to configure a CloudWatch log group after your gateway is activated.

To configure a CloudWatch log group to work with your gateway

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Storage Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/home.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose Gateways, and then choose the gateway that you want to configure the CloudWatch log group for.

3. For Actions, choose Edit gateway information, or on the Details tab, under Health logs and Not Enabled, choose Configure log group to open the Edit CustomerGatewayName dialog box.

4. For Gateway health log group, choose one of the following:

   • Disable logging if you don't want to monitor your gateway using CloudWatch log groups.

   • Create a new log group to create a new CloudWatch log group.

   • Use an existing log group to use a CloudWatch log group that already exists. Choose a log group from the Existing log group list.

5. Choose Save changes.

6. To see the health logs for your gateway, do the following:

   1. In the left navigation pane, choose Gateways, and then choose the gateway that you configured the CloudWatch log group for.

   2. Choose the Details tab, and under Health logs, choose CloudWatch Logs. The Log group details page opens in the Amazon CloudWatch console.