[scarface74]

The only part of the console that I absolutely hate is dealing with the Parameter Store. But I hate everything else about the parameter store too so there is that.

CodePipeline is pretty bad too. There is no way you can create a cross account code pipeline from the console.

[baseballMan]

CloudWatch log filters are pretty bad too. I basically just use ctrl + f now in cw logs to find what I'm looking for.

[eropple]

Emit your logs in JSON for structural search and use CloudWatch Logs Insights. It's actually really very good these days--we have an ELK cluster because the team is used to the Kibana interface but I rarely if ever use it.

[cloakandswagger]

I haven't had this problem. For simple string searches CloudWatch returns exactly what I'm looking for, even for partial word matches, and for more complicated queries there is the excellent Insights feature.

[scarface74]

Oh yeah. They are horrible. I agree completely. For C#, I use Serilog for logging to both a Cloudwatch sink and a ElasticSearch sink. Before I’ve used a Mongo sink.

[nostrebored]

Cross account setups from the console are generally not allowed.

[scarface74]

You can assign cross account permissions for S3, sharing AMIs, sharing KMS keys, SNS permissions, etc.