how to get all log groups names-CodePudding

I have a lambda that exports all of our loggroups to s3, and am currently using cloudwatchlogs.describeLogGroups to list all of our logGroups.

const logGroupsResponse = await cloudwatchlogs.describeLogGroups({ limit: 50 })

The issue is that we have 69 logGroups is there any way to list (ids, and names) of absolutely all logGroups in an aws account. I see it's possible to have 1000 log groups. This is a screenshot of our console:

How come cloudwatchlogs.describeLogGroups just allows a limit of 50 which is very small?

CodePudding user response：

Assuming that you are using AWS JS SDK v2, describeLogGroups API provides a nextToken in its response and also accepts a nexToken. This token is used for retrieving multiple log groups (more than 50) by sending multiple requests. We can use the following pattern to accomplish this:

const cloudwatchlogs = new AWS.CloudWatchLogs({region: 'us-east-1'});
let nextToken = null;
do {
    const logGroupsResponse = await cloudwatchlogs.describeLogGroups({limit: 50, nextToken: nextToken}).promise();
    
    // Do something with the retrieved log groups
    console.log(logGroupsResponse.logGroups.map(group => group.arn));

    // Get the next token. If there are no more log groups, the token will be undefined
    nextToken = logGroupsResponse.nextToken;
} while (nextToken);

We are querying the AWS API in loop until there are no more log groups left.