firstandthird / cwl

AWS Cloudwatch Logs CLI tool

cwl

AWS Cloudwatch Logs CLI tool

'cwl -h' for help

cwl's Issues

search command issue

it looks like we are doing the filter on our side instead of passing the filter to AWS. we should use the FilterLogEvents.

cwl cleanup [groupname] [days] - remove streams that haven't had logs in the last X days

tail doesn't appear to be working

cwltail worked fine, but it appears that the tail command isn't working here. @orthagonal can you investigate?

specs

want to create a simple lib that makes dealing with cloudwatch logs easier. We have this https://github.com/firstandthird/cwltail for tailing logs and https://github.com/firstandthird/aws-cli-utils/blob/master/lib/logs.js we had previously. So we create a single helper tool to handle that. I'm thinking we should list out the commands and what they do before we get going.

//cc @ecwillis @orthagonal

Commands

• cwl groups - list cloudwatch log groups
• cwl streams [groupname] - list streams
• cwl tail [groupname] [?streamname] - grab the last 10 mins of logs and then fetch every few seconds - pull in from cwltail
• help messaging if running cwl by itself
• make it work with env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• cwl search [groupname] [query] - search group of logs for a specific query. need to figure out how to include streamname too.
• cwl metric [groupname] [filtername] - get the metric filter query and then do a search
• cwl cleanup [groupname] [days] - remove streams that haven't had logs in the last X days

Features

• option to pretty print output - use purdy to pretty print if json. would be nice to color code nginx/apache logs

cwl metric [groupname] [filtername] - get the metric filter query and then do a search

show waiting animation when querying

sometimes I don't know if it's broken or still searching.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/cli-spinners

logs command

paginate through all logs starting from newest to oldest. Maybe show last 50 logs and then have enter key show the next 50