rantoniuk.cloudwatch-retention-setter 1.0.0

Based on EventBridge rule, automatically set the logGroup retention policy when new AWS CloudWatch logGroup is created.

Cloudwatch Retention Setter

Cloudwatch Retention Setter is an AWS CDK construct library that reacts on AWS CloudWatch events. AWS CloudWatch does not offer the ability to set a "default retention policy" that would be set to all newly created Log Groups (e.g. by Lambda Function runs).

This construct addresses this by monitoring AWS CloudWatch Events via EventBridge, when a new LogGroup is created a Lambda function is invoked automatically that sets the retention policy to the specified value.

Getting started

TypeScript

Installation

npm:

npm install --save cloudwatch-retention-setter

yarn:

yarn add cloudwatch-retention-setter

Usage

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { CloudwatchRetentionSetter } from 'cloudwatch-retention-setter';
import { RetentionDays } from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-logs';
import { Schedule } from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-events';

const app = new cdk.App();
const stack = new cdk.Stack(app, '<stack-name>');

// use default retention of 6 months
new CloudwatchRetentionSetter(stack, 'cloudwatch-retention-setter');

// use custom retention
new CloudwatchRetentionSetter(stack, 'cloudwatch-retention-setter', {
  retentionDays: RetentionDays.ONE_MONTH,
});

Python

Installation

$ pip install cloudwatch-retention-setter

Usage

import aws_cdk.core as cdk
from cdk_cloudwatch_retention_setter import CloudwatchRetentionSetter

app = cdk.App()
stack = cdk.Stack(app, "<stack-name>")

CloudwatchRetentionSetter(stack, "cloudwatch-retention-setter")