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otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch

otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch receives logs from Amazon CloudWatch and forwards them to other otelcol.* components.

You can specify multiple otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch components by giving them different labels.

Usage

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otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch "<LABEL>" {
  region = "us-west-2"

  output {
    logs = [...]
  }
}

Arguments

You can use the following arguments with otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch:

If imds_endpoint isn’t specified, and the environment variable AWS_EC2_METADATA_SERVICE_ENDPOINT has a value, it will be used as the IMDS endpoint.

Blocks

You can use the following blocks with otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch:

output

debug_metrics

logs

The logs block configures how logs are collected from CloudWatch.

The following arguments are supported:

The logs block supports the following blocks:

logs > groups

The groups block supports the following blocks:

The blocks autodiscover or named are mutually exclusive.

logs > groups > autodiscover

The autodiscover block configures automatic discovery of log groups.

The following arguments are supported:

The autodiscover block supports the following blocks:

logs > groups > autodiscover > streams

The streams block configures filtering of log streams for the autodiscovered log groups.

The following arguments are supported:

logs > groups > named

The named block explicitly configures specific log groups to collect from. Multiple named blocks can be specified.

The following arguments are supported:

Exported fields

otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch doesn’t export any fields.

Component health

otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration.

Debug information

otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch doesn’t expose any component-specific debug information.

Example

The following example collects logs from specific EKS cluster log groups and forwards them through a batch processor:

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otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch "default" {
  region = "us-west-2"

  logs {
    poll_interval = "3m"
    max_events_per_request = 5000

    groups {
      named {
        group_name = "/aws/eks/dev-cluster/cluster"
        names = ["api-gateway"]
      }
      named {
        group_name = "/aws/eks/prod-cluster/cluster"
        prefixes = ["app-", "service-"]
      }
    }
  }

  output {
    logs = [otelcol.processor.batch.default.input]
  }
}

otelcol.processor.batch "default" {
  output {
    logs = [otelcol.exporter.otlp.default.input]
  }
}

otelcol.exporter.otlp "default" {
  client {
    endpoint = env("<OTLP_ENDPOINT>")
  }
}

Compatible components

otelcol.receiver.awscloudwatch can accept arguments from the following components:

• Components that export OpenTelemetry otelcol.Consumer