Amazon API Gateway to Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon API Gateway → Amazon CloudWatch

The pattern creates an Amazon API Gateway REST API with access logging to Amazon CloudWatch enabled.

This pattern demonstrates logging access data from API Gateway to Amazon CloudWatch. This data can help debug latency issues, integration issues, WAF issues and more.

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Language:: Python
Framework:: AWS SAM

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Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/serverless-patterns/cd serverless-patterns/apigw-cloudwatch

Deploy

sam deploy

Testing

See the GitHub repo for detailed testing instructions.

Cleanup

Delete the stack: sam delete.

Additional resources

Troubleshooting Amazon API Gateway with enhanced observability variables

Created by:

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services and is based in Northern Colorado. Eric is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping developers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this, Eric has worked as a developer, solutions architect and AWS Evangelist for an AWS partner company.

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