How can I get log content in AWS Lambda from Cloudwatch

Question

I have this basic lambda that posts an image to a web server. From the events in CloudWatch, I can log successfully anything that happens in that lambda function :

From this Log Group (the lambda function) I clicked on Stream to AWS Lambda, chose a new lambda function in which I expect to receive my logs and didn't put any filters at all so I can get all logs.

The Lambda is triggered properly, but the thing is when I persist what I received in the event and context objects, I have all CloudWatch log stream information but I don't see any of the logs.

What I get :

Do I need to specify a filter for me to see any logs at all? Because in the filter section if I don't put any filters and click on test filter, I get all the logs in the preview window which seems to mean it should send the whole logs to my Lambda function. Also, it looked to me the logs where that unreadable stream in AWSLogs and that it was in Base64 but didn't get any results trying to convert that.

Answer 1

Yes the logs are gzipped and base64-encoded as mentioned by jarmod.

Sample code in NodeJs for extracting the same in lambda will be:

var zlib = require('zlib');
exports.handler = (input, context, callback) => {
    var payload = new Buffer(input.awslogs.data, 'base64');
    zlib.gunzip(payload, function(e, result) {
        if (e) { 
            context.fail(e);
        } else {
            result = JSON.parse(result.toString());
            console.log(result);
        }
    });