I love AWS, but when I’m debugging issues I prefer the Linux command line over Cloudwatch Logs Insights. Numerous AWS services store their log configuration inside cloudwatch, which presents a small challenge since my tooling (ripgrep, awk, jq, sed, etc.) can’t directly access cloudwatch logs. The aws command line has a nifty get-log-events option which can solve this problem. It allows you to export logs from a log stream, and has several options to control what gets exported.
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