So, I've been working on an AWS Aurora MySQL project lately (yes, you need to qualify Aurora, because these days there's a Postgres variant).
One problem we had was getting info out of the logs. Querying the logs is possible from within MySQL, but time consuming. Ditto querying the logs that are being saved to disk. We used the AWS directions (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/monitoring-amazon-aurora-audit-events-with-amazon-cloudwatch/) to get our logs to dump into CloudWatch, which offers a Powershell cmdlet to filter them (although it limits to 1mb at a time, hence the DO WHILE with a low rowcount). Unfortunately, I didn't find any actual working examples.
So while this may not be the best, it does work.
NOTE: results currently go to an out-gridview window. Obviously, change that to what you need, or:
* remove the write-host
* remove the ogv line
* wrapper the entire DO WHILE into a variable then return that at the end. BE CAREFUL DOING THIS. I tried it with a decent-sized results set (30k) and got a weird error back:
Get-CWLFilteredLogEvent : Error unmarshalling response back from AWS. Request ID:
