AWS Log forwarding restrictions

New Relic has the following restrictions with AWS integration for log forwarding when ingesting logs via S3 or Firehose:

For ingesting AWS logs from S3

• The log file size should be less that 80 MB.
• The size of a single log line should be less than 8 MB.
• Log lines between 1mb and 8mb will be split into multiple messages and forwarded to New Relic.
• New Relic currently doesn't support Client Json or log line parsing.
• New Relic currently supports only Gzip and Bzip2 compression formats for log files. It processes files in other compressed formats as uncompressed files.

For ingesting logs from CloudWatch

• New Relic currently doesn't support client Json or log line parsing.
• New Relic currently supports only Lambda layers for parsing logic.