Fields that contain special characters - Amazon CloudWatch Logs
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Fields that contain special characters

If a field contains non-alphanumeric characters other than the @ symbol or the period (.), you must surround the field with backtick characters (`). For example, the log field foo-bar must be enclosed in backticks (`foo-bar`) because it contains a non-alphanumeric character, the hyphen (-).