# Enable Amazon Connect flow logs in an Amazon CloudWatch log group
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By default when you create a new Amazon Connect instance, an Amazon CloudWatch log group is created automatically to store the logs for your instance.

**Tip**  
Amazon Connect delivers flow logs at least once. They may be delivered again for multiple reasons. For example, a service retry due to an unavoidable failure.

## Step 1: Enable logging for your instance
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Use the following procedure to check that logging is enabled for your instance.

1. Open the Amazon Connect console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/connect/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/connect/).

1. On the instances page, choose the instance alias. The instance alias is also your **instance name**, which appears in your Amazon Connect URL. The following image shows the **Amazon Connect virtual contact center instances** page, with a box around the instance alias.  
![\[The Amazon Connect virtual contact center instances page, the instance alias.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/instance.png)

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Flows**.

1. Select **Enable Flow logs** and choose **Save**.

## Step 2: Add the Set logging behavior block
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Logs are generated only for flows that include a [Set logging behavior](set-logging-behavior.md) block with logging set to enabled. 

You control which flows, or parts of flows, logs are generated for by including multiple **Set logging behavior** blocks and configuring them as needed.

When you use a **Set logging behavior** block to enable or disable logging for a flow, logging is also enabled or disabled for any subsequent flow that a contact is transferred to, even if the flow does not include a **Set logging behavior** block. To avoid logging that persists between flows, enable or disable a **Set logging behavior** block as needed for that specific flow.

**To enable or disable flow logs for a flow**

1. In the flow designer, add a [Set logging behavior](set-logging-behavior.md) block and connect it to another block in the flow.

1. Open the properties for the block. Choose **Enable** or **Disable**.

1. Choose **Save**.

1. If you add a **Set logging behavior** block to a flow that is already published, you must publish it again to start generating logs for it.