aws_cloudwatch 0.4.6+1

An easy, lightweight, and convenient way to reliably send logs to AWS CloudWatch.

aws_cloudwatch

An easy, lightweight, and convenient way to reliably send logs to AWS CloudWatch.

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If you have feedback or have a use case that isn't covered feel free to open an issue.

Getting Started

Create a CloudWatch instance and then send a log

import 'package:aws_cloudwatch/aws_cloudwatch.dart';

CloudWatch cloudWatch = CloudWatch(
  _AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  _AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  _Region,
  groupName: GROUP_NAME,
  streamName: STREAM_NAME,
);

cloudWatch.log('Hello World');

Quick Start

This is the quick start file. It is also location in example/aws_cloudwatch.dart

import 'package:aws_cloudwatch/aws_cloudwatch.dart';
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

/// QUICK START LOGGING FILE
///
/// PLEASE FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES:

const String _AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY';
const String _AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY';
const String _Region = 'YOUR_REGION_CODE'; // (us-west-1, us-east-2, etc)
const String _LogGroup = 'DESIRED_LOG_GROUP_NAME';
const String _ErrorGroup = 'DESIRED_ERROR_LOG_GROUP_NAME';

/// END OF VARIABLES

CloudWatchHandler logging = CloudWatchHandler(
  awsAccessKey: _AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  awsSecretKey: _AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  region: _Region,
  delay: Duration(milliseconds: 200),
);

String logStreamName = '';

// You may want to edit this function to suit your needs
String _getLogStreamName() {
  if (logStreamName == "") {
    logStreamName = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss").format(
      DateTime.now().toUtc(),
    );
  }
  return logStreamName;
}

void log(String logString, {isError = false}) {
  logging.log(
    msg: logString,
    logGroupName: isError ? _LogGroup : _ErrorGroup,
    logStreamName: _getLogStreamName(),
  );
}

Then just import this file somewhere in your code and call log('HELLO WORLD');. The package will handle creating the log groups and log streams on its own. The way the quick start file is set up, you will end up with one log group for standard logging and another for errors. Both with have the same log stream name. To automatically send logs for all flutter errors see example 3.

Important Notes:

Using Temporary Credentials

Temporary credentials are supported as of version 0.4.6. Use the optional parameter sessionToken to specify your session token. Expired credentials can be updated by setting the CloudWatch instance sessionToken variable. Setting the sessionToken on a CloudWatchHandler will update the sessionToken on all CloudWatch instances it manages.

Avoiding AWS Cloudwatch API Rate Limiting

As of now (2021/09/12), AWS has a rate limit of 5 log requests per second per log stream. You may hit this limit rather quickly if you have a high volume of logs. It is highly recommended to include the optional delay parameter with a value of Duration(milliseconds: 200) to avoid hitting this upper limit. With a delay, logs will continue to collect, but the api calls will be limited to 1 / delay per second. For example, a delay of 200 milliseconds would result in a maximum of 5 api requests per second. At the moment there is no way to increase this limit.

Example 2 shows how to add a delay. The default delay is Duration(milliseconds: 0).

Retrying Failed Requests

Sometimes API requests can fail. This is especially true for mobile devices going in and out of cell service. Both the CloudWatch constructor and the CloudWatchHandler constructor can take the optional parameter retries indicating how many times an api request will be attempted before giving up. The default retries value is 3.

Failed DNS Lookups

By default, failed DNS lookups are silenced. Generally it can be assumed that if the DNS lookup fails, internet is unavailable. This behaviour is controlled by the raiseFailedLookups flag and set to false by default. If internet is available and this case is getting hit, its possible there is an issue on the server level, but it is far more likely that the provided region has a typo.

Log Groups and Log Streams

Log stream names currently (2021/09/12) have the following limits:

• Log stream names must be unique within the log group.
• Log stream names can be between 1 and 512 characters long.
• The ':' (colon) and '*' (asterisk) characters are not allowed.

Log group names currently (2021/09/12) have the following limits:

• Log group names can be between 1 and 512 characters long and match to ^[\.\-_/#A-Za-z0-9]+$.

Message Size and Length Limits

AWS has hard limits on the amount of messages, length of individual messages, and overall length of message data sent per request. Currently, (2021/09/12) that limit is 10,000 messages per request, 262,118 UTF8 bytes per message, and 1,048,550 total message UTF8 bytes per request. The optional parameter largeMessageBehavior specifies how messages larger than 262,118 UTF8 bytes will be handled. By default, the middle of the message will be replaced with ... to reduce the size to 262,118 UTF8 bytes. All other hard limits are handled automatically.

Examples

Example 1

Here's an example of using aws_cloudwatch to send a CloudWatch PutLogEvent request:

import 'package:aws_cloudwatch/aws_cloudwatch.dart';

// AWS Variables
const String AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'ExampleKey';
const String AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'ExampleSecret';
const String Region = 'us-west-2';

// Logging Variables
const String logGroupName = 'LogGroupExample';
const String logStreamName = 'LogStreamExample';
CloudWatch cloudWatch = CloudWatch(
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  Region,
  groupName: logGroupName,
  streamName: logStreamName,
);

void log(String logString) {
  cloudWatch.log(logString);
}

Example 2

Here's an example of using aws_cloudwatch to send a CloudWatch PutLogEvent request with a 200-millisecond delay to avoid rate limiting:

import 'package:aws_cloudwatch/aws_cloudwatch.dart';

// AWS Variables
const String AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'ExampleKey';
const String AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'ExampleSecret';
const String Region = 'us-west-2';

// Logging Variables
const String logGroupName = 'LogGroupExample';
const String logStreamName = 'LogStreamExample';
CloudWatch cloudWatch = new CloudWatch(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, Region, groupName: logGroupName,
    streamName: logStreamName, delay: Duration(milliseconds: 200));

void log(String logString) {
  cloudWatch.log(logString);
}

By adding a 200-millisecond delay, aws_cloudwatch will send more logs at a time and will be limited to sending api requests at most once every 200 milliseconds. This can reduce the chance of hitting the AWS CloudWatch logging rate limit of 5 requests per second per log stream.

Example 3

Here is an example of how to capture all errors in flutter and send them to CloudWatch. First create this file and name it errorLog.dart

import 'package:aws_request/aws_cloudwatch.dart';
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

// AWS Variables
const String AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'ExampleKey';
const String AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'ExampleSecret';
const String Region = 'us-west-2';

// Logging Variables
const String logGroupName = 'LogGroupExample';
const String logGroupNameError = 'ErrorLogGroupExample';

CloudWatchHandler logging = CloudWatchHandler(
  awsAccessKey: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  awsSecretKey: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  region: Region,
);

String logStreamName = '';

// You may want to edit this function to suit your needs
String _getLogStreamName() {
  if (logStreamName == "") {
    logStreamName = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss").format(
      DateTime.now().toUtc(),
    );
  }
  return logStreamName;
}

void log(String logString, {isError = false}) {
  logging.log(
    msg: logString,
    logGroupName: isError ? logGroupNameError : logGroupName,
    logStreamName: _getLogStreamName(),
  );
}

void logFlutterSystemError(dynamic logString, dynamic stackTrace) async {
  log(
    'Auto Captured Error: ${logString.toString()}\n\n'
        'Auto Captured Stack Trace:\n${stackTrace.toString()}',
    isError: true,
  );
}

Then modify your main.dart to look like the following

import 'dart:async';
import 'app.dart';

import 'errorLog.dart';

void main() {
  runZonedGuarded<Future<void>>(() async {
    Function originalOnError = FlutterError.onError;
    FlutterError.onError = (FlutterErrorDetails errorDetails) async {
      Zone.current
          .handleUncaughtError(errorDetails.exception, errorDetails.stack);
      originalOnError(errorDetails);
    };
    runApp(MyApp());
  }, (error, stackTrace) async {
    logFlutterSystemError(error, stackTrace);
    print(error.toString());
    throw error;
  });
}

To send normal logs, import the logging file anywhere and call log('Hello world!');

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Copyright (c) Zachary Merritt

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