Log Sorting with AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudWatch Insights

I was contracted to make these videos to help people decide which service they wanted to use for their logging — CloudWatch, CloudWatch Insights, DataDog, or New Relic.

I’m searching through nginx logs. I have accompanying videos of each service that you can find on the CloudAvail Youtube page; See these links to go to the DataDog and NewRelic [TBD] posts.

The idea was to be subjective in the videos, but I can be objective on my personal blog.

The videos are on my blog, and here is a sample from the Insights portion;

The syntax has changed — Vastly. I see major SQL influences. You can see that in how the parse function works — in this case, it’s often taken pieces of a pre-existing standard — in this case, message — and breaking them into their own categories you can reference.

Again, see both videos on my blog for you to watch and share.