Storing logs in the cloud

An edge solution loads resources from the cloud in order to bootstrap, configure, and generally make the local solution ready for runtime. The health of the device and the solution should also be reported to the cloud to assist with production operations. By default, your HBS hub device checks in with the cloud IoT Greengrass service to report connectivity status and the result of the most recent deployment. To get more telemetry from the edge solution, such as logs and metrics, you need to deploy additional components. In this section, you will deploy a managed component that ships component logs up to Amazon CloudWatch, a service for storing and querying logs.

Storing the logs of our hub devices in the cloud is a best practice and enables us to triage devices individually without needing a live connection to the device or being physically in front of it. After all, some of these devices may be in rather remote locations such as the Alaskan tundra or only...