One of the easiest ways to make a live stream interactive is to add live chat along side of the stream. With Amazon Interactive Video Service it's easy to and add moderation (both manual and ). It's also simple to to your chat rooms to archive chat sessions to Amazon CloudWatch, an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or Amazon S3. create a chat room automated add chat logging Depending on your logging configuration, there are different approaches to retrieving logged chat sessions (for example, using the CloudWatch SDK as we saw in my ). But sometimes our application needs to do more than just retrieve a chat session for a given time period. Sometimes we need the ability to search for a specific message, or group of messages based on a specific keyword, or see a list of messages posted by a certain user. last post For this, we can integrate our CloudWatch log group with Amazon OpenSearch Service to provide fine-grained search for chat messages and events based on any property that we might need. Prerequisites This post will assume that you have already set up chat logging for your Amazon IVS chat room, and that you already have an existing OpenSearch Service domain. If not, check out the following links to get everything setup. Getting started with Amazon OpenSearch Service Archiving Web Chat Messages with Amazon IVS Chat Logging Sending CloudWatch Logs to OpenSearch Service Integrating a CloudWatch log groups with OpenSearch Service is natively supported, so there's no need for manual steps in this process. We'll cover the whole process below, but if you get stuck at any point, refer to the . documentation Add Subscription Filter Navigate to the CloudWatch log group that you created and associated with your Amazon IVS chat logging configuration and view the log group details. Click on the menu from this page. Actions Select the menu item, and in the submenu select . Subscription filters Create Amazon OpenSearch Service subscription filter On the next page, find and select the OpenSearch Service cluster where you would like to send the log data. Under , select . If you want to only index a subset of your chat logs, you can enter a filter. If you would like all logged chat events, leave the filter . Either way, you must enter a . Configure log format and filters JSON blank Subscription filter name If you do choose to enter a filter, it must follow the syntax outlined in the . For example, to filter the indexing of messages only sent by a particular user, the following filter can be applied and tested. documentation { $.payload.Attributes.username = "Admin" } When you're satisfied with the configuration, click . The subscription filter will create an AWS Lambda function behind the scenes that will handle indexing each new log entry/chat message in the OpenSearch Service console. We'll have to create an IAM role to enable that function to access the OpenSearch Service console, so in the list of your CloudWatch log group, grab the of the newly created function. Start streaming Subscription filters Destination ARN Creating an IAM Role Head over to the IAM console, and select , . Select as the , and under . Roles Create role AWS Service Trusted entity type Lambda Use case Add the policy to the IAM role. AmazonOpenSearchServiceFullAccess Give the role a name, then click . Create role If your OpenSearch Service domain uses fine-grained access control, we'll need to do one more step to make sure that our chat logs can stream to the search cluster. In your OpenSearch dashboard, select . Security Next, select , then choose the role. Roles all_access Choose the tab, then click . Mapped users Manage mapping In the section, add the ARN of the AWS Lambda execution role that we created above and click . Backend roles Map Querying OpenSearch For Chat Messages At this point, all new chat messages that are logged to CloudWatch will be streamed directly to the OpenSearch Service cluster. There will be a unique index created for each day's worth of CloudWatch logs, and the index name will follow the format . cwl-YYYY-MM-DD To get a list of all indices in your cluster, issue the following query: GET /_cat/indices This will return a list of the indices, one of which should be named with the prefix (for CloudWatch log). This index will contain your chat messages. cwl yellow open cwl-2023.03.06       -Je9wXJLSWWxLy3Jj6vSkA 5 1  9 0 104.6kb 104.6kb
yellow open cwl-2023.03.03       wabX_QhPTfmMuI53Xv61rg 5 1  9 0 115.5kb 115.5kb
green  open .opendistro_security SXnVYG-MQLanddjHyJUJXQ 1 0 10 3    65kb    65kb
green  open .kibana_1            TW-4N5cQRQObaXMKA3hBYA 1 0  1 0   5.1kb   5.1kb We can issue standard OpenSearch queries against a index to search for chat messages. POST /cwl-2023.03.03/_search
{
  "query": {
    "wildcard": {
       "payload.Content": {
          "value": "*weather*"
       }
    }
  }
} This query will return a standard JSON result containing metadata about the index, query execution, and the query results. {
  "took" : 120,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : {
      "value" : 1,
      "relation" : "eq"
    },
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : "cwl-2023.03.03",
        "_id" : "[redacted]",
        "_score" : 1.0,
        "_source" : {
          "event_timestamp" : "2023-03-03T16:01:33.875Z",
          "type" : "MESSAGE",
          "payload" : {
            "Type" : "MESSAGE",
            "Id" : "Ll4kxDgNaW7f",
            "RequestId" : "",
            "Attributes" : {
              "username" : "Admin"
            },
            "Content" : "the weather is cold",
            "SendTime" : "2023-03-03T16:01:33.87564497Z",
            "Sender" : {
              "UserId" : "8e9a91d3-3ab7-4b89-b2a8-da1326beb055",
              "Attributes" : {
                "username" : "Admin"
              }
            }
          },
          "version" : "1.0",
          ...
        }
      }
    ]
  }
} Since the chat messages are JSON, we can even search directly for chat messages posted by a specific user: POST /cwl-2023.03.03/_search 
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "payload.Attributes.username": "Admin"
    }
  }
} If multiple chat rooms are sharing the logging configuration, we can search for messages related to a specific room. POST /cwl-2023.03.06/_search 
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "@log_stream": "aws/IVSChatLogs/1.0/room_0wgOPVl4ZRdu"
    }
  }
} We can also search for messages within a given timeframe. POST /cwl-2023.03.06/_search 
{
  "query": {
    "range": {
      "@timestamp": {
        "gte": "now-10m",
        "lt": "now"
      }
    }
  }
} Refer to the OpenSearch for more information on querying your index. documentation Summary In this post, we looked at how to stream a Amazon IVS chat log messages into an OpenSearch Service cluster via a CloudWatch log group subscription filter. This allows us to perform powerful queries against our chat log history and find messages by specific criteria. Also published . here

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