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Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysis

Amazon CloudWatch now offers Log Analytics, unifying CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights in one console. Users can run multiple queries, use existing features, and access all tools from this default interface.

Amazon CloudWatch now offers Log Analytics, a unified console experience that combines CloudWatch Logs Insights for querying and analyzing log data, Live Tail for real-time log streaming, and Contributor Insights for identifying top contributors-all in one place. With this launch, customers can execute multiple queries across different tabs and utilize all existing Logs Insights features such as patterns, saved queries with parameters, facets for interactive log exploration, natural language query generation, and visualizations. Live Tail and Contributor Insights are also accessible from within Log Analytics, which serves as the default experience. Customers who opt out will see Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights alongside Log Analytics. Log Analytics is available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses the same pricing as its underlying capabilities-Logs Insights queries, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights.

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