What You’re Building Today
You’re creating a CloudWatch log collector that automatically discovers and pulls logs from AWS services—Lambda functions, ECS containers, API Gateway, and more—into your distributed log processing system. By day’s end, you’ll have a production-ready integration handling thousands of log entries per second from multiple AWS accounts.
Today’s Deliverables:
AWS CloudWatch client with automatic service discovery
Multi-account log streaming with configurable filters
Real-time ingestion pipeline with backpressure handling
Web dashboard showing CloudWatch metrics and log flow
Docker deployment with AWS credentials management
The Cloud Logging Challenge
Companies like Airbnb run thousands of Lambda functions generating millions of log entries daily across multiple AWS accounts. Without proper integration, engineers manually export logs or use AWS Console—neither scales. Your CloudWatch collector solves this by automatically discovering log sources, streaming entries in real-time, and forwarding them to your processing pipeline.
