Windows binaries are available in release pages.

This plugin works with fluent-bit's go plugin interface. You can use fluent-bit-go-cloudwatch-logs to ship logs into AWS CloudWatch.

The configuration typically looks like:

fluent-bit --> AWS CloudWatch

$ fluent-bit -e /path/to/built/out_cloudwatch_logs.so -c fluent-bit.conf

• Go 1.11+
• gcc (for cgo)

$ make

Example:

add this section to fluent-bit.conf

[Output]
    Name cloudwatch_logs
    Match *
    # Credential    /path/to/sharedcredentialfile
    AccessKeyID     yourawsaccesskeyid
    SecretAccessKey yourawssecretaccesskey
    LogGroupName    yourloggroupname
    LogStreamName   yourslogstreamname
    Region us-east-1
    # AutoCreateStream false # default: true

fluent-bit-go-cloudwatch-logs supports the following credentials. Users must specify one of them:

Specifying credentials is required.

This plugin supports the following credentials:

Create the following file which includes credentials:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

And specify the following parameter in fluent-bit configuration:

Credential    /path/to/sharedcredentialfile

Specify the following parameters in fluent-bit configuration:

AccessKeyID     yourawsaccesskeyid
SecretAccessKey yourawssecretaccesskey

Specify AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY as environment variables.

• fluent-bit-go