[NewJazz]

Cloudwatch fucking sucks.

Plenty of log shippers can slurp journald. (Fluentd, filebeat, vector)

Even ChromeOS uses it, even on devices that still use Upstart.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Even ChromeOS uses it, even on devices that still use Upstart.

I was curious about this, because I thought journald hard required systemd as pid 1, so I did a search, which promptly turned up https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer... -

> Jounald is deprecated and is about to be removed.

[NewJazz]

Hmm couldn't exactly tell when it was removed, but it looks like it lasted maybe 3-4 years. This is the commit that added it to the upstart config.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/870...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Fascinating. An initscript for journald is a special kind of cursed that I didn't expect to read today:)

[bigstrat2003]

You're being downvoted but you're absolutely right. The fact that Cloudwatch doesn't support journald is a major, major fail on AWS' part. It's not like this is new or obscure software.

[NewJazz]

I'm just surprised anyone wants to use cloudwatch when they don't need to. It is expensive, and far from the best observability platform.

[dontlaugh]

It's always there by default. That's the only reason I've ever seen it used.