AWS VPC Flow Logs OpenTelemetry Assets

Serverless Observability Serverless Security Stack 9.2.0

The AWS VPC Flow OpenTelemetry Assets allow you to monitor Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs. Flow logs capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC.

The EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS enables you to collect VPC Flow Logs from Amazon S3 and forward them directly into Elastic Observability. Use this integration to visualize that data in Kibana, create alerts to notify you if something goes wrong, and reference logs when troubleshooting an issue.

You need an Elastic Observability project (Serverless only) for storing, analyzing, and visualizing your ELB logs.

From the AWS side, to collect VPC Flow logs, you need:

• A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• An S3 bucket for storing flow logs
• A flow log configured with the S3 bucket as the destination

For step-by-step instructions on how to set up an EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS, see the EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS guide.

For a complete list of all available logs and their detailed descriptions, refer to the OpenTelemetry AWS Logs encoding extension

This integration includes one or more Kibana dashboards that visualizes the data collected by the integration. The screenshots below illustrate how the ingested data is displayed.

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