Python on the AWS Beanstalk. How to snapshot custom logs?

Question

I'm developing python application which works on aws beanstalk environment. For error handling and debugging proposes I write logs to custom lof file on the directory /var/logs/.

What should I do in order to have ability snapshot logs from Elastic beanstalk management console?

Answer 1

Expanding on Vadim911 (and my own comment), I solved the problem using a config file in .ebextensions. Here is the python code:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(filename='/opt/python/log/my.log', level=logging.DEBUG)

Here is the .ebextensions config file code:

files:
  "/opt/python/log/my.log" :
   mode: "000666"
   owner: ec2-user
   group: ec2-user
   content: |
       # Askbot log file

The contents of this file (along with other log files) is available using the Logs snapshot function on the AWS elastic beanstalk console.

Answer 2

If you need have ability to snapshot log files from Beanstalk management console, you should just write you log files to "/opt/python/log/" folder. Elastic beanstalk scripts use this folder for log tailing.