{"id":"awslabs-log-analyzer-with-mcp","name":"Log-Analyzer-with-MCP","af_score":46.8,"security_score":52.5,"reliability_score":30.0,"what_it_does":"Provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects AI assistants to AWS CloudWatch Logs, enabling log browsing/searching, log insights-style querying, summarization, error pattern detection, and cross-service log correlation.","best_when":"You want an MCP-compatible tool interface for an AI assistant to perform interactive investigations against CloudWatch Logs using AWS credentials.","avoid_when":"You cannot provide/maintain AWS credentials securely, or you require strict data handling controls not described in the documentation provided.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:41:00.908478+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["AWS credentials (configuration described in docs referenced by README)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Agent may generate Logs Insights queries that are expensive or hit CloudWatch query limits; additional guardrails/constraints may be needed.","Live log search can produce large outputs; without truncation/limits, agents may struggle with context length.","AWS permissions must be correctly scoped; insufficient IAM rights will cause failures that an agent may need to interpret."],"error_quality":0.0}