Cloudwatch Log Insights Group Log Entries - amazon-web-services

I have two different log groups and am retrieving details in different ways.
Once per:
fields #timestamp, message.event.detail.myIdentifier as placeA.myIdentifier
And once with
fields #timestamp
| parse message.event.Records.0.body '"myIdentifier ": "*"' as placeB.myIdentifier
Is there a way to join these log entries by myIdentifier?
Ideally the goal would be to compare the timestamps of all places per identifier.
So e.g.:
myIdentifier
placeA-timestamp
placeB-timestamp
First
12:00:00
13:00:00
Second
12:05:00
13:05:00
Is there a way to achieve this with cloud watch log insights?
Thanks for your help!

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The query is:
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by datefloor(#timestamp, 1d) as #_datefloor
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For several of the days in the results, it is a negative number.
I thought I might be misunderstanding the correct usage of datefloor(), so I tried running the following query:
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At this point the only scenarios I can see are
Something wrong with the code executing the query.
I'm misunderstanding this tool.
I have discovered that the count_distinct function in AWS Log Insights queries doesn't really return a distinct count! As per the documentation
Returns the number of unique values for the field. If the field has very high cardinality (contains many unique values), the value returned by count_distinct is just an approximation.
Apparently I can't just assume that a function returns an accurate result.
The documentation page.

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Here is the query I am using:
fields #timestamp, #message
| sort number asc
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I'm trying to create a CloudWatch Insights query for Amazon Connect that will give me call counts by date. I'm able to get the number of log messages by date, however, I need to only count unique ContactId's. The query I have has many duplicated ContactId's since each time Connect logs to CloudWatch, it uses ContactId to tie all of the events related to a contact together. Is there a way to modify this query to only show the count of the unique ContactId?
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| sort callCount desc
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I typically run a query like
fields #timestamp, #message
| filter #message like /ERROR/
| sort #timestamp desc
| limit 20
Is there any way to get additional lines of context around the messages containing "ERROR"? Similar to the A, B, and C flags with grep?
Example
For example, if I have a given log with the following lines
DEBUG Line 1
DEBUG Line 2
ERROR message
DEBUG Line 3
DEBUG Line 4
Currently I get the following result
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But I would like to get more context lines like
DEBUG Line 2
ERROR message
DEBUG Line 3
with the option to get more lines of context if I want.
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fields #timestamp, #message, #logStream
| filter #message like /ERROR/
| sort #timestamp desc
| limit 20
That will give you a column similar to the right-most one in this screenshot:
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Example:
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| sort #timestamp asc
| limit 500
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I am wanting to parse some logs via Splunk that are in one event but multiple lines.
Value1: 1000 MS
Value2: 300 MS
Value3: 1500 MS
I am having a hard time looking through Splunk documentation on how to extract these fields from one event.
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