sleuth + aws cloudwatch + spring boot microservices

Question

I want to configure my spring boot microservice application with sleuth to send the logs to the cloud watch and track the requests using their trace ids generated by sleuth.

What are the ways i can achieve this

Answer 1

I think you can use spring-cloud-starter-aws-cloudwatch. You will need to be logged in in AWS of course and have permissions to create a logs stream and write logs.

IAM permissions:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "CloudWatchLogsPolicy",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:region:account-id:log-group:your-log-group:*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

with these dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-aws</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-aws-cloudwatch</artifactId>
</dependency>