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CloudWatch is definitely a write optimised product. Any kind of reading or searching is pretty terrible.

I’m sure AWS would recommend you use Kinesis Firehose or something to put in ElasticSearch and use Kibana or something. But I would be great to have an equally scalable log parser/searcher.

All of the Cloudwatch is very slow (Logs & Metrics & Alarms) we hate it

Have you tried IOpipe? [0]

[0]: https://iopipe.com

Disclosure: Work on the Python and Go agents.

We haven’t had issues but we keep our time windows short for any searching through logs (and we don’t use json logs so that’s an interesting difference). We use other systems for longer range log analysis.