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Cloudwatch fucking sucks. Plenty of log shippers can slurp journald. (Fluentd, filebeat, vector) Even ChromeOS uses it, even on devices that still use Upstart

• bigstrat2003 1y ago
  You're being downvoted but you're absolutely right. The fact that Cloudwatch doesn't support journald is a major, major fail on AWS' part. It's not like this is new or obscure software.
  • NewJazz 1y ago
    I'm just surprised anyone wants to use cloudwatch when they don't need to. It is expensive, and far from the best observability platform.
    • dontlaugh 1y ago
      It's always there by default. That's the only reason I've ever seen it used.
• yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  > Even ChromeOS uses it, even on devices that still use Upstart. I was curious about this, because I thought journald hard required systemd as pid 1, so I did a search, which promptly turned up https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/reference/logging/logging/#journald-deprecation https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer... - > Jounald is deprecated and is about to be removed.
  • NewJazz 1y ago
    Hmm couldn't exactly tell when it was removed, but it looks like it lasted maybe 3-4 years. This is the commit that added it to the upstart config. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/870ac1b355d8569de61703c294a2733993651df2%5E%21 https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/870...
    • yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
      Fascinating. An initscript for journald is a special kind of cursed that I didn't expect to read today:)