Yes! I didn’t realize this at first. I was searching for `API tool for getting system log` and `ec2 command line system log` and I even looked at all the ec2 command looking for the word `log` – but there is a trick. If you want to be able to grab the data that you grab via the web interface at `console.aws.amazon.com`:
- ec2 “get system log” command line
- ec2 “get system log” command line
- ec2 cli system log
- ec2 get system log
- amazon ec2 api get system log
- amazon ec2 system tools
Then you need to use the following ec2 command:
ec2-get-console-output
####SYNOPSIS
ec2gcons ([ec2-get-console-output])
ec2gcons [GENERAL OPTIONS] [-r] INSTANCE
####GENERAL NOTES
> Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of ‘-‘ to indicate that values for that option should be read from stdin.
####DESCRIPTION
> Display the instance’s console output. The INSTANCE parameter is the ID of the instance’s console to retrieve.
####SPECIFIC OPTIONS
-r, –raw-console-output
Raw output. Do not escape the console output. If not specified ^ESC
is escaped and multiple blank-lines are folded into one.
