README.md

🌤️ FriendlyLog

Human-friendly summaries of AWS CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alerts — without needing to be a cloud engineer.

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🧠 What It Does

FriendlyLog helps non-technical users (or busy devs) understand their AWS application health at a glance.

• 🦚 Prettified Logs The Cloudwatch UI is ugly. Friendlylog, less so.
• 📊 Summarized trends in key logs & alerts - coming soon
• 💡 Plain language insights like “Errors spiked 40% after your last deployment” - coming soon

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/PersonOfNote/friendlyLog.git
cd friendlyLog

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Set up environment variables

Create a .env file in the root directory with the following variables:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=your-supabase-url
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=your-supabase-anon-key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-aws-access-key-id
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-aws-secret-access-key
AWS_REGION=your-aws-region
AWS_ROLE_ARN=your-aws-role-arn

4. Run the app

npm run dev

📦 Tech Stack Next.js – SSR-friendly React framework

Supabase – Auth + DB

AWS SDK v3 – Programmatic CloudWatch access

📌 Roadmap Basic Supabase auth flow ✅

AWS integration wizard/onboarding ✅

Pretty logs ✅

Daily summary email ✅

Subscription implementation

Graphs

Plain-language alerts and rule setting

🧑‍💻 Contributing

File issues or feature requests under the Issues tab.