Troubleshooting - Amazon CloudWatch
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Troubleshooting

This section covers common issues you might encounter when working with CloudWatch pipelines and their solutions.

Pipeline creation failures

  • Issue: Pipeline creation fails with permission errors

    Solution: Verify that your IAM role has the required PassRole permissions for any roles specified in the pipeline configuration

  • Issue: Configuration validation errors

    Solution: Use the ValidateTelemetryPipeline API to check your configuration syntax before creating the pipeline

  • Issue: Log source not available to select

    Possible reason: There is already a log source with the same data source name and type. Duplicate combinations are greyed out since you can only create one of each.

Data processing issues

  • Issue: No data flowing through pipeline

    Solution: Check that your data source is properly configured and generating data, and verify that CloudWatch Logs resource policies are correctly set

  • Issue: Processor errors in pipeline

    Solution: Review processor configuration and ensure input data format matches processor expectations