AWS Fundamentals: Trace requests in Flask with AWS Cloudwatch

1. AWS Fundamentals: Create an Account, Billing Alarm, and Budgets
2. AWS Fundamentals: IAM user, GitHub, and AWS CLI
3. AWS Fundamentals: Create AWS Conceptual and Logical Diagrams
4. AWS Fundamentals: Containerize React and Flask w/ Docker
5. AWS Fundamentals: Add the notifications activity service
6. AWS Fundamentals: Trace requests with AWS X-Ray
7. AWS Fundamentals: Trace requests with AWS Cloudwatch

Introduction

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html

Getting Started

We are going to add the watchtower python package to our project to implement custom logs to AWS CloudWatch

watchtower

Open requirements.txt in backend-flask

Add watchtower to requirements.txt