Entity - Amazon CloudWatch Logs
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Entity

The entity associated with the log events in a PutLogEvents call.

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attributes

Additional attributes of the entity that are not used to specify the identity of the entity. A list of key-value pairs.

For details about how to use the attributes, see How to add related information to telemetry in the CloudWatch User Guide.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 10 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Required: No

keyAttributes

The attributes of the entity which identify the specific entity, as a list of key-value pairs. Entities with the same keyAttributes are considered to be the same entity.

There are five allowed attributes (key names): Type, ResourceType, Identifier Name, and Environment.

For details about how to use the key attributes, see How to add related information to telemetry in the CloudWatch User Guide.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Minimum number of 2 items. Maximum number of 4 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 32.

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Required: No

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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: