# Centralized Logging Architecture

* The Centralized Logging solution **enables organizations to collect, analyse, and display CloudWatch Logs in a single dashboard**.\\

* **AWS services generate log data**, such as audit logs for access, configuration changes, and billing events.\\

* In addition to AWS log data; web servers, applications, and operating systems **all generate log files in various formats**.\\

* The **Centralized Logging solution contains the following components: log ingestion, log indexing, and visualization**.\\

  * **Log ingestion: CloudWatch Logs destinations deploy in the primary account and are created with the required permissions in each of the selected Regions**.\\

  * **Log indexing: A centralized Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose are provisioned to index log events on the centralized Elasticsearch Service (ES) domain**.\\

  * **Visualization: ES and Kibana provide data visualization and exploration support**.

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