DataSource - Amazon CloudWatch

DataSource

Information about a data source associated with the telemetry pipeline. For CloudWatch Logs sources, this includes both a name and type extracted from the log event metadata. For third-party sources (such as S3), this includes only a name, with the type field left empty.

Contents

Name

The name of the data source. For CloudWatch Logs sources, this corresponds to the data_source_name from the log event metadata. For third-party sources, this is either the configured data_source_name or defaults to the plugin name if not specified.

Type: String

Required: No

Type

The type of the data source. For CloudWatch Logs sources, this corresponds to the data_source_type from the log event metadata. For third-party sources, this field is empty.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

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