Amazon CloudWatch allows you to create alarms on log data using log queries, and get alerted on anomalies without leaving your log analysis workflow. With today's launch, you can configure an alarm on log query and specify the alarm threshold directly, thereby eliminating the need to first create metric filters or custom metrics as intermediate steps. This streamlines the path to actively monitoring the data in your logs, and monitoring and alerting on it. For example, you can write a query to count error rates by service, set a threshold, and receive an alarm notification with log context whe
Source: AWS What's New — read the full report at the original publisher.