How to achieve CDN observability with Amazon CloudFront logs

Monitoring the performance of your content delivery network (CDN) is critical for proactively detecting and troubleshooting issues before they affect end-users. By leveraging real-time logs from Amazon CloudFront, you can analyze key metrics such as cache hits/misses and HTTP response codes to identify performance problems and minimize downtime. This enables you to create real-time alerts and live dashboards, investigate anomalies, and respond quickly to deteriorating events. To forward these logs to New Relic, you'll need to set up a Kinesis Data Stream and delivery stream, enabling real-time logging for CloudFront and connecting to the Kinesis Data Stream. You'll also use log parsing capabilities in the New Relic logs UI to enrich the logs with identifiers, applying a Grok pattern to format the logs according to your requirements. By doing so, you can analyze the logs to make informed decisions and optimize performance before they affect your customers.

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