Colorize AWS CloudWatch Logs

Group logs visually on AWS CloudWatch

What is Colorize AWS CloudWatch Logs?

Colorize AWS CloudWatch Logs is a Chrome extension that provides a unique and user-friendly way to view your AWS CloudWatch logs. By assigning different colors to logs depending on their grouping, making keywords bold and adding new functionalities such as full-screen mode and auto-refresh, it brings an improved and tailored log viewing experience. It's a lightweight, free to use tool that doesn't collect user or webpage information, aiming to deliver a better visual representation of logs to aid in easy comprehension and analysis.

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By: https://ilhan-mstf.github.io

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.22 (9)

Version: 0.5.1 (Last updated: 2020-12-07)

Creation date: 2020-02-23

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 17.15K

Email: il*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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# 25589 ▼ 50

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#3057 in Developer Tools ▲ 5 #118 in contribute keyword 9 ▲ 12 #126 in error keyword 12 ▲ 8 #242 in line keyword 50 ▲ 11 #290 in font keyword 63 ▼ 9

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Summary

Analyze keywords

The purpose of this extension is to group logs visually on AWS CloudWatch. There are three rules:

Set a different background color for each log group of AWS Lambda invocation. Therefore, you can easily recognize beginning, body and end of the logs of the same invocation.
Set font weight of lines having REPORT, [ERROR] and [Error keywords to bold.
Set text color of ANSI terminal codes in the logs. (by https://github.com/oguimbal)

Further, there is two functionality for better log viewing experience (by https://github.com/oguimbal):

Switching to fullscreen,
Refreshing the logs periodically to load new items.

This extension doesn't collect any user and web page information. It only runs on AWS CloudWatch Logs web page. It is free to use.

Overhead is very low, colorize operation takes ~7 milliseconds, listen operation for new event logs takes just ~0.5 milliseconds in every second.

Contributions are welcome. To contribute please visit project page: https://github.com/ilhan-mstf/colorize_cloudwatch_logs

User reviews

I came across this by complete chance, and am so happy I did. It's incredibly helpful to see breaks in the log entries. I even like your choice of colors! Makes my day every time I look at a log and know that I found something simple and helpful. Thank you for sharing it.