Elastic Load Balancer Access Logs
The ELB service allows you to turn on optional logging, which captures and monitors the requests flowing through your load balancers. These logs can also help you analyze traffic patterns and troubleshoot issues with the targets to which the load balancers are sending requests.
The access logs, once enabled, are delivered to an S3 bucket that you specify during the setup and the log files are compressed. You need to decompress the files before accessing the raw log files.
AWS ELB log files can be used for several purposes, including the following:
- Troubleshooting: The ELB log files contain detailed information about the requests that were served by the load balancer, including the source address, the request URL, the HTTP status code, and the response time. This information can be used to troubleshoot issues with your application, such as slow response times, errors, or connectivity problems.
- Performance analysis: ELB log files can...