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Enable Logpush to Amazon S3

Cloudflare Logpush supports pushing logs directly to Amazon S3 via the Cloudflare dashboard or via API. Customers that use AWS GovCloud locations should use our S3-compatible endpoint and not the Amazon S3 endpoint.

​​ Manage via the Cloudflare dashboard

Enable Logpush to Amazon S3 via the dashboard.

To enable the Cloudflare Logpush service:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard.

  2. Select the Enterprise account or domain you want to use with Logpush.

  3. Go to Analytics & Logs > Logs.

  4. Select Add Logpush job.

  5. In Select data set, choose the dataset to push to a storage service, and select Next.

  6. In Select data fields:

    • Select the data fields to include in your logs. Add or remove fields later by modifying your settings in Logs > Logpush.
    • In Advanced Settings, you can change the Timestamp format (RFC3339(default),Unix, or UnixNano), Sampling rate and enable redaction for CVE-2021-44228.
    • Under Filters you can select the events to include and/or remove from your logs. For more information, refer to Filters. Not all datasets have this option available.
  1. In Select a destination, choose Amazon S3.

  2. Enter or select the following destination information:

    • Bucket path
    • Daily subfolders
    • Bucket region
    • Encryption constraint in bucket policy
    • For Grant Cloudflare access to upload files to your bucket, make sure your bucket has a policy (if you did not add it already):
      • Copy the JSON policy, then go to your bucket in the Amazon S3 console and paste the policy in Permissions > Bucket Policy and select Save.
  3. Select Validate access.

  4. Enter the Ownership token (included in a file or log Cloudflare sends to your provider) and select Prove ownership. To find the ownership token, select the Open button in the Overview tab of the ownership challenge file.

  5. Select Save and Start Pushing to finish enabling Logpush.

Once connected, Cloudflare lists Amazon S3 as a connected service under Logs > Logpush. Edit or remove connected services from here.

​​ Create and get access to an S3 bucket

Cloudflare uses Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) to gain access to your S3 bucket. The Cloudflare IAM user needs PutObject permission for the bucket.

Logs are written into that bucket as gzipped objects using the S3 Access Control List (ACL) Bucket-owner-full-control permission.

For illustrative purposes, imagine that you want to store logs in the bucket burritobot, in the logs directory. The S3 URL would then be s3://burritobot/logs.

Ensure Log Share permissions are enabled, before attempting to read or configure a Logpush job. For more information refer to the Roles section.

To enable Logpush to Amazon S3:

  1. Create an S3 bucket. Refer to instructions from Amazon.

  2. Edit and paste the policy below into S3 > Bucket > Permissions > Bucket Policy, replacing the Resource value with your own bucket path. The AWS Principal is owned by Cloudflare and should not be changed.

{
"Id": "Policy1506627184792",
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmt1506627150918",
"Action": ["s3:PutObject"],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::burritobot/logs/*",
"Principal": {
"AWS": ["arn:aws:iam::391854517948:user/cloudflare-logpush"]
}
}
]
}