# Installer awslogs avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de awslogs pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:awslogs
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install awslogs
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#awslogs
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/aw/awslogs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:awslogs
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.15.0
- **Résumé source:** Simple command-line tool to read AWS CloudWatch logs
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-12T10:32:03Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- awslogs (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.15.0
## Historique du projet et usages

awslogs is a command-line reader for Amazon CloudWatch Logs. It wraps common log-group, log-stream, tailing, filtering, and time-window workflows in a small CLI aimed at humans using pipes and terminal tools.

### Historique du projet

The `jorgebastida/awslogs` repository was created in January 2015, shortly after CloudWatch Logs became a common AWS logging destination. The README describes it as a simple tool for querying groups, streams, and events from Amazon CloudWatch Logs, with features such as aggregation across streams, colored output, watching logs, and human-friendly relative time filters.

The project used Git tags rather than GitHub releases for much of its history. Tags show early 0.x releases by 2016 and a 0.15.0 tag in 2024, while the README continues to document both pip and Homebrew installation.

### Historique d'adoption

awslogs became popular because it made CloudWatch Logs feel closer to `tail`, `grep`, and other local log-reading workflows. Before and alongside newer AWS CLI log commands and consoles, it gave operators a direct way to stream and search CloudWatch logs from a terminal.

Its public repository attention and package-manager availability reflect a narrow but durable use case: AWS users wanted log access that fit shell habits.

### Modes d'utilisation

Common usage includes `awslogs groups`, `awslogs streams GROUP`, and `awslogs get GROUP STREAM_EXPRESSION`, often with `--start`, `--end`, `--watch`, `--filter-pattern`, or `--query`. The README highlights piping output into tools such as `grep` for pseudo-realtime monitoring.

awslogs can take explicit AWS access keys, but its README recommends using AWS CLI-managed credentials when available; with multiple profiles, users pass `--profile` or set `AWS_PROFILE`.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

awslogs matters to package-manager users as a classic single-purpose cloud CLI: small command surface, obvious executable name, and immediate value in incident-response shells. It represents the era when many AWS service gaps were filled by independent Python CLIs distributed through pip and Homebrew.

For package nerds, it is also a useful contrast with AWS CLI: not every AWS task wants a giant generated vendor CLI when a focused stream-oriented tool is nicer.

### Chronologie

- 2015: Public GitHub repository `jorgebastida/awslogs` created.
- 2016: 0.5 tag published.
- 2024: 0.15.0 tag published.
- 2024: Repository still receives updates.

### Related projects

- AWS CLI can also retrieve CloudWatch Logs through generated service commands.
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs is the AWS service queried by awslogs.
- Boto/Boto3 and AWS shared credentials provide the underlying AWS Python ecosystem and credential conventions.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/jorgebastida/awslogs>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/jorgebastida/awslogs/git/tags/0ba94c4dc2640cfa530fe882fc2ac347bf5f2a9f>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/jorgebastida/awslogs/git/tags/568570610dbbdd75ffb98349e0af768c7a2d0355>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/jorgebastida/awslogs/tags?per_page=100>
- <https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebastida/awslogs/master/README.rst>


## Notes de sécurité

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.aws/credentials
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - awslogs: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/aw/awslogs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/awslogs.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/awslogs.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
