title: Forwarding journald to Cloudwatch Logs
body: <p>I'm a newbie to CentOS and wanted to know the best way to parse journal logs to CloudWatch Logs.</p>
  
  <p>My thought processes so far are:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Use FIFO to parse the journal logs and ingest this to Cloudwatch Logs,  - It looks like this could come with draw backs where logs could be dropped if we hit buffering limits.</p></li>
  <li><p>Forward journal logs to syslog and send syslogs to Cloudwatch Logs -- </p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The idea is essentially to have everything logging to journald as JSON and then forward this across to CloudWatch Logs.</p>
  
  <p>What is the best way to do this? How have others solved this problem?</p>