This tool uses the aws-go-sdk to bootstrap an elasticsearch cluster with cloudwatch logs configured to forward to this cluster.

To use this you need an AWS account with some services logging to cloudwatch logs.

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Firstly create a cluster.yml in the current directory using the example provided.

Create an elasticsearch cluster.

Usage:
  aws-ek-setup up [flags]

Global Flags:
      --aws-debug[=false]: Log debug information from aws-sdk-go library

Brief example which creates a new cluster named testcluster.

AWS_PROFILE=XXX aws-ek-setup create --name=testcluster

This is a work in progress at the moment and has some pretty basic defaults right now.

• Discover all cloudwatch log groups and stream them to elastic search

aws-ek-setup is Copyright (c) 2015 Mark Wolfe @wolfeidau and licensed under the MIT license. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE.md file for more details.