Delete CloudWatch logs after exporting to S3

CloudSnorkel / CloudWatch2S3

Logging infrastructure for exporting all CloudWatch logs from multiple accounts to a single S3 bucket

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Delete CloudWatch logs after exporting to S3 #7

Closed moisesrodriguez closed 3 years ago

moisesrodriguez commented 3 years ago

Hey,

I just implemented this application to export CloudWatch logs, but I've noticed that the CloudWatch logs are still in there and not deleted. My initial purpose is to offload the GBs I have in CloudWatch Logs to S3 for a cheaper storage, but I can see that it just exports without deleting them. Is there currently a params to enable to delete the CloudWatch Logs that are already exported?

kichik commented 3 years ago

You can set the retention time for the logs to something low so they get deleted soon after being added. That's a CloudWatch feature. It will work better than whatever we can implement on the ingestion side.