AWS documentation says "For Windows instances, the instance console output displays the last three system event log errors."
So thats obviously wrong. When I run "get system log" on one of my EC2 instances from the web console i see
2017/05/23 21:43:15Z: EC2ConfigMonitorState: 0 2017/05/23 21:43:15Z: Windows sysprep configuration complete. 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: AMI Origin Version: 2016.12.14 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: AMI Origin Name: Windows_Server-2012-R2_RTM-English-64Bit-Base 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.3.9600 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: OsVersion: 6.3 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: OsProductName: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: Language: en-US 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: TimeZone: Coordinated Universal Time 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: Offset: UTC 00:00:00 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: EC2 Agent: Ec2Config service v4.1.1396 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: Driver: AWS PV Network Device v7.4.3.0 2017/05/23 21:43:16Z: Driver: AWS PV Storage Host Adapter v7.4.3.0 2017/05/23 21:43:17Z: Message: Waiting for meta-data accessibility... 2017/05/23 21:43:17Z: Message: Meta-data is now available. .... 2017/05/23 21:43:26Z: KMS: Server:169.254.169.251; Attempt:1 2017/05/23 21:43:26Z: Message: Product activation was successful 2017/05/23 21:43:26Z: Message: Windows is Ready to useii
Thats not a windows event log and its not just the "last 3 errors". Where is the output Im looking at located on the instance and why does the documentation say it should be error system event logs when it is not?