Where to find logs for a cloud-init user-data script?

Question

I\'m initializing spot instances running a derivative of the standard Ubuntu 13.04 AMI by pasting a shell script into the user-data field.

This works. The script runs. B

Answer 1

The default location for cloud init user data is already /var/log/cloud-init-output.log, in AWS, DigitalOcean and most other cloud providers. You don't need to set up any additional logging to see the output.