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Push Logs to AWS S3 bucket

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  • Required Access
  • Prerequisites
  • Procedure
  • Limitations

You can continually push logs from mongod, mongos, and audit logs to an AWS S3 bucket. Atlas exports logs every 5 minutes.

Required Access

To push logs to an AWS S3 bucket, you must have Project Owner or Organization Owner access to Atlas.

To push logs to an AWS S3 bucket using the Atlas Administration API, you must have Project Owner access to Atlas.

Prerequisites

You will need:

  • an AWS account with permissions to manage IAM roles.

  • an existing AWS S3 bucket.

Procedure

To continually push logs to an AWS S3 bucket, follow these steps.

1

In Atlas, go to the Advanced page for your project.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. In the sidebar, click Advanced under the Security heading.

    The Advanced page displays.

2

Toggle the button next to Push-Based Log Export to ON.

3

Click Connect to S3.

4

Follow the instructions in the Atlas UI.

You will be prompted to either a) create a new AWS role, or b) use one already attached to Atlas.

Limitations

  • You can't specify which logs to send. Atlas sends all mongod, mongos, and audit logs.

  • Push-based log export doesn't support Bring Your Own Key (BYOK).

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