writing directly to cloudwatch logs

sometimes you just need to write to a cloudwatch log and you want to do that from the terminal? You can do this with jq bash and aws cli yey

timestamp=$(date +%s000); \
json_data=$(jq --null-input --arg timestamp $timestamp '{"timestamp": ($timestamp|tonumber), "message": "ssn: 123-12-1234"}'); \
aws logs put-log-events --log-group-name /dev/ridigintraffic --log-stream-name something-special --log-events "$json_data"