Hey everyone, I'm trying to wrap my head around how to effectively use CloudWatch for monitoring API errors at work. It seems like we're going through a lot of unnecessary steps for troubleshooting. Here's the situation: When customers make API calls, I need to identify errors based on the API key. First, I query the logs using the API key, and then to see the specific request/response where the error occurred, I have to run another query using the request ID. My question is, is there a way to streamline this into a single query? I'm also wondering if the Lambda function, which I can't access, isn't sending back all the required data, which might be making things more complicated for us.
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Ideally, you should be embedding necessary metadata within your structured logs. By doing so, you can look up by user ID or similar identifiers and pull relevant logs efficiently. Just a heads-up: avoid logging the full API key. Instead, consider logging an identifier for the key or perhaps just the last four digits, to minimize risks.
If you're using structured logging, you can filter logs for both the API key and the log level. This way, you should be able to pull the relevant error logs for the specific customer you're tracking. However, if you're looking for logs surrounding those error events, you might still need to perform separate queries, which is the issue you're facing. It's like asking for a SQL sub-query—just not feasible in this scenario.
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