CloudWatch Log Group

Resource Type

AWS.CloudWatch.LogGroup

Resource ID Format

For CloudWatch Log Groups, the resource ID is the ARN.

arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:123456789012:log-group:/prefix/groupname:*

Background

CloudWatch Logs enables teams to centralize logs from systems, applications, and AWS services.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
KmsKeyId	String	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the CMK to use when encrypting log data.
MetricFilterCount	Integer	The number of metric filters.
RetentionInDays	Integer	The number of days to retain the log events in the specified log group. If this value is null, logs are kept forever.
StoredBytes	Integer	The number of bytes stored in the log group.

{
    "AccountId": "123456789012",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:123456789012:log-group:/prefix/groupname:*",
    "KmsKeyId": null,
    "MetricFilterCount": 0,
    "Name": "/prefix/groupname",
    "Region": "us-west-2",
    "ResourceId": "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:123456789012:log-group:/prefix/groupname:*",
    "ResourceType": "AWS.CloudWatch.LogGroup",
    "RetentionInDays": 365,
    "StoredBytes": 100000,
    "Tags": null,
    "TimeCreated": "2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}