Access Logs

Before you begin

Deploy Proficy Historian for AWS.

About this task

You can access and analyze logs using CloudWatch. Historian also provides a custom dashboard, which contains a few important widgets to monitor memory utilization, etc.

Procedure

  1. Log in to AWS Management Console.
  2. Under All Services > Management & Governance, select CloudWatch.
    The CloudWatch page appears.
  3. In the left section, select Dashboards.
  4. From the list of dashboards, select the one that contains the EKS cluster name.
    The following widgets appear.
    • Historian Archiver Pod Memory Utilization
    • Historian Archiver Pod Network Bytes
    • Historian Archiver Pod CPU Utilization
    • Cluster Node Memory Utilization
    • Cluster Node CPU Utilization
    You can add more widgets as needed. For information on dashboards and widgets, refer to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html.
  5. Under Logs, select Log groups.
  6. From the list of log groups, select the one that contains the EKS cluster name.
    The logs generated by Data Archiver appear.

    The logs are retained for the retention period you set while deploying Proficy Historian for AWS (by default, 30 days). You can change the retention period by selecting the link in the Retention column in the list of log groups.