Question

an online shopping platform has been deployed to aws using elastic beanstalk. they simply uploaded their node.js application, and elastic beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. since the entire deployment process is automated, the devops team is not sure where to get the application log files of their shopping platform. in elastic beanstalk, where does it store the application files and server log files?

Answer 1

AWS Elastic Beanstalk stores application and server log files on the instances running the application. These logs can be accessed and downloaded through the Elastic Beanstalk console or set up to be rotated and stored on Amazon S3 for long-term retrieval.

Step-by-step explanation:

When an online shopping platform is deployed on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, it simplifies many of the complex tasks of managing infrastructure. However, tracking down log files can be a challenge for a team new to the environment. The good news is that Elastic Beanstalk provides ways to access the various log files related to your application.

For your Node.js application, Elastic Beanstalk stores log files directly on the instances that are running your application. However, AWS provides a feature within Elastic Beanstalk to request and download the last 100 lines of your application log files directly from the Elastic Beanstalk console, or you can configure your environment to push the logs to Amazon S3 for storage and retrieval.

To download the logs from the Elastic Beanstalk console, navigate to the environment that's running your application. From there, you can use the 'Logs' link in the sidebar to request and download your logs. Additionally, you can configure Elastic Beanstalk to automatically rotate the logs to Amazon S3 by editing the environment configuration, to ensure that you have access to the logs for a more extended period and to capture more detailed information than the last 100 lines.