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Collect AWS Lambda Logs using an Extension

AWS Lambda Extensions enable us to more easily integrate into the AWS Lambda execution environment to control and participate in the AWS Lambda lifecycle and the AWS Lambda Telemetry API enables us to collect AWS Lambda logs, metrics, and spans. Sumo Logic, therefore, has developed a new open-source AWS Lambda extension that is a lightweight process that runs within the same execution environment as your Lambda functions and uses the Lambda Telemetry API to send platform, function, and extension logs along with metrics and spans to Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic's Lambda Extension works with AWS Lambda functions that are built for both x86_64 and ARM 64 (Graviton2) architectures. 

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To learn more please see the following links:

To review and submit enhancements for this extension, please visit the Sumo Logic GitHub repository.

AWS Lambda Supported Runtimes​

Sumo Logic supports all Lambda runtimes that support extensions. For a complete list, see AWS Lambda runtimes.

Follow the steps below, to use the new extension to collect your Lambda logs.

Step 1: Add a Hosted Collector and HTTP Source​

Identify an existing Sumo Logic Hosted Collector you want to use, or create a new Hosted Collector as described in the following task.

note

When you configure the HTTP Source, make sure to save the HTTP Source Address URL. You will need this while configuring the AWS Environment variables.

To add a hosted collector and HTTP source, do the following:

  1. Create a new Sumo Logic Hosted Collector by performing the steps in Configure a Hosted Collector.
  2. Create a new HTTP Log Source in the hosted collector created above by following these instructions.

Step 2: Adding the Sumo Logic Lambda Extension to your AWS Lambda function​

The Sumo Logic Lambda Extension can be added to your AWS Lambda function that is created through all supported methods.

AWS Lambda functions created using zip files, blueprint, serverless applications​

For AWS Lambda functions created using Zip files, blueprint or serverless applications:

To add the Sumo Logic Lambda Extension to your AWS Lambda function, please follow the steps below:

  1. In the AWS Management Console, navigate to the definition of your Lambda function, Select Layers and click Add a Layer.

    Add_Layer.png

  2. Select Specify an ARN.

    • For x86_64 architecture, enter the following ARN:

      <AWS_REGION>:956882708938:layer:sumologic-extension-amd64:<VERSION>
      • AWS_REGION. Replace with the AWS Region of your Lambda function
      • VERSION. The latest version of the Sumo Logic Extension.

      x86_64.png

    • For arm64 architecture, enter the following ARN:

      <AWS_REGION>:956882708938:layer:sumologic-extension-arm64:<VERSION>
      • AWS_REGION. Replace with the AWS Region of your Lambda function
      • VERSION. The latest version of the Sumo Logic Extension.

      arm64.png

AWS Lambda Functions Created Container Images​

To package the Sumo Logic Lambda Extension with the AWS Lambda function created using container images, please follow the steps below:

  1. Download the latest binary tar file from the GitHub Release page.

    • For functions based on the x86_64 architecture:

      wget
      https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-lambda-extensions/releases/latest/download/sumologic-extension-amd64.tar.gz

    • For functions based on the ARM 64 architecture:

      wget
      https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-lambda-extensions/releases/latest/download/sumologic-extension-arm64.tar.gz

  2. In your AWS Lambda container image Dockerfile, add the command below.

    ADD <Location-where-you-downloaded-the-tar-file>/sumologic-extension-<architecture>.tar.gz /opt/

  3. Validate if the extension is added to the directory and execute the below command.

    docker run -it --entrypoint sh <ImageName>:<ImageTag>

  4. Execute the command ls -R /opt/ to see the directory structure. It should look as per the screenshot below.

    Container_Images.png

  5. Deploy your AWS Lambda function using the container images.

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    The command will extract the Sumo Logic Lambda extension binary file into the folder structure as /opt/extensions. Do not change the directory structure as it is required by AWS Lambda to identify all the external extensions.

Step 3: Adding the Environment variables​

Add the following environment variables to your Lambda function:

Variable NameDescriptionType
SUMO_HTTP_ENDPOINTThis is the URL of the Sumo Logic HTTP source created in Step 1.Required
SUMO_LOG_TYPESPlease provide a comma-separated list of values that are one or more "platform", "function" or "extension" to indicate which AWS Lambda logs you want to send to Sumo Logic. By default, all of these three values are assumed.Optional
SUMO_ENABLE_FAILOVERSet to True to failover in case you would like the extension to send logs to an AWS S3 bucket. In the case of throttling or, exceptions the default value assumed is False.Optional
SUMO_S3_BUCKET_NAMEThe name of an AWS S3 bucket.Optional
SUMO_S3_BUCKET_REGIONThe Region where the above AWS S3 bucket is located.Optional
SUMO_MAX_RETRYA Number of retries to send logs to Sumo Logic. The default is 0.Optional
SUMO_LOG_LEVELLog level, which can be one of info, error, or debug. The default value is info.Optional
SOURCE_CATEGORY_OVERRIDEThe Source Category for all incoming data is set to that of the HTTP endpoint by default. You can however override it with this parameterOptional
SUMO_SPAN_DROPSet to true in case you would like the extension to drop spans from ingested into Sumo Logic. The default value assumed is false.Optional

  1. Once you have set your parameters, execute your AWS Lambda function, and validate that the logs are coming into Sumo Logic. 

  2. If you have enabled failover, do the following:

    • Add the following inline policy to the IAM role associated with your lambda function.

      Inline_Policy.png

      {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
              {
                  "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
                  "Effect": "Allow",
                  "Action": "s3:PutObject",
                  "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<AWS S3 Bucket Name>/*"
              }
          ]
      }

    • Configure a Sumo Logic AWS S3 source with the same source category as that of the HTTP Source created in Step 1 to read from this bucket.

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      Logs from the Sumo Logic Lambda extension are stored and compressed in the following prefix path sumologic-extension/<aws-region>/<Function>/<Version>/<Year>/<Month>/<Day>/<Hour>/<Min>/<UUID>.gz

      Sumo_AWS_source.png

Step 4 (Optional): Disable logging to CloudWatch logs​

Since AWS Lambda continues to send logs to CloudWatch Logs even if extensions subscribe to the logs stream, you can disable logging to CloudWatch Logs for your function as described in the documentation.

Step 5 (Optional): Receive logs during AWS Lambda execution time  ​

All the logs that are not sent to Sumo Logic during the Execution phase of the AWS Lambda, are sent during the shutdown phase instead. The platform.report and platform.end events are sent in next execution. If the time period is longer, AWS calls the shutdown event. In that case, Sumo Logic flushes out all of the logs.

If you would like to always send logs during the execution phase however, you can add extra execution time via a sleep function at the end of lambda code, which will give your extension time to run and send logs to Sumo Logic. We recommend setting this to two seconds.

For more details on phases on the lifecycle and AWS Lambda phases please see the AWS documentation.

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