README.md

cloudfront2loggly

NodeJS AWS Lambda script for pushing gzipped Cloud Front log files stored in Amazon S3 to Loggly as JSON objects.

How to use

• Clone the repository and install dependencies:

npm install

• Configure Loggly by editing cloudfront2loggly.js and changing:

logglyConfig = {
    tag: "TAG_NAME",
    token: "ACCESS_TOKEN"
};

• Compress the code and upload to AWS Lambda:

zip -r cloudfront2loggly cloudfront2loggly.js node_modules

Further reading

For more details about AWS Lambda and Loggly, please read:

• http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
• https://www.loggly.com/

Developer notes

To alter log data, before pushing to Loggly, change the data object at these lines:

// To alter data (i.e. remove sensitive log content), alter the data object before issuing request.post.
function(data) {
    [...]
}