---
title: How to tail -f Cloudwatch logs
url: https://alex.dinnouti.com/posts/2021-06-21_13-54-10_cloudwatch/
date: 2021-06-21
tags: AWS
---

Get all the groups from the Cloudwatch

```bash
aws logs describe-log-groups | grep logGroupName
```

Plug the group into the 'logs tail' and run in the background

```bash
aws logs tail --follow <group> --format short
```

### 3rd party solutions

+ [jorgebastida/awslogs: AWS CloudWatch logs for Humans™](https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs)
+ [rpgreen/apilogs](https://github.com/rpgreen/apilogs) - For Lambda and API logs