Can I specify the aws_region within the logging yaml file?

[dibog]

First off, thanks for this library. I'm playing around and it looks really nice.
But I have a question. It seems that watchtower requires the aws_region. Would it be possible
to specify the region via the logging yaml file from the example: https://github.com/kislyuk/watchtower#examples-python-logging-config

Something like:

watchtower:
    class: watchtower.CloudWatchLogHandler
    region: eu-central-1
    formatter: json
    level: DEBUG
    log_group_name: watchtower
    log_stream_name: "{logger_name}-{strftime:%y-%m-%d}"
    send_interval: 10
    create_log_group: False

I know that you can specify the region via the boto3.client. But I would like to keep my main program free form
such "logging details".

Thanks!

[kislyuk]

Not directly, but you can use the boto3_profile_name argument, and configure a custom boto3 profile (https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/configuration.html#using-a-configuration-file) in your boto3 config file with the region specified.

[dibog]

Why not adding such a region property into the logging profile?
I would like to not add another config file, where there is already an appropriate (e.g. logging.yaml).

[darnes]

@dibog from my experience adding it to the lib initialization breaks some nice features such as boto auto-config inside ec2 instance.
As a workaround, you can use the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable.