# Working with CloudWatch Logs by using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use, in a single, highly scalable service. You can then easily view them, search them for specific error codes or patterns, filter them based on specific fields, or archive them securely for future analysis. For more information, see [What Is Amazon CloudWatch Logs?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*.

The following topics describe how to use the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code to work with CloudWatch Logs in an AWS account.

**Topics**
+ [Viewing CloudWatch log groups and log streams](viewing-CloudWatch-logs.md)
+ [Working with CloudWatch log events](working-CloudWatch-log-events.md)
+ [Searching log groups](cloud-watch-search.md)
+ [CloudWatch Logs Live Tail](cloudwatch-livetail.md)