Before using the 'awslogs' package function please export the environment variable AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1 or go to get more details and alternative configurations on https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go: "The SDK has support for the shared configuration file (~/.aws/config). This support can be enabled by setting the environment variable, "AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1", or enabling the feature in code when creating a Session via the Option's SharedConfigState parameter."

The awslogs go package provides a function that you can use to post log messages (or any other string of interest) to AWS Cloudwatch.

The Go function LogToCloudwatch receives 2 arguments:

• A string with the Cloudwatch log group name.
• A string with the message to be logged into Cloudwatch. The function checks if the log group name/log stream name already exists and if not it creates the log group.

Usage example:

 import (
    "github.com/bamaralf/go-cloudwatchlogs/awslogs"
 ) 
 ...
 LogToCloudwatch ("test-group", "test message")
 ...

Usage example 2:

 import (
     "github.com/bamaralf/go-cloudwatchlogs/awslogs"
 )
 ...
 test := "test-group"
 LogToCloudwatch(test, "Cambio! This message will be logged on AWS Cloudwatch!")
 ...

The log group name will be the value kept on the logGroupName variable with a "." added to the beginning of the string.

".test-group"

The log stream inside the log group will be the hostname.

AWS SDK for the Go programming language. http://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/

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