Avoiding rate throttling

[timkoopmans]

This seems like a good solution out of the box however might need to consider a way to batch apply events in the stream for anything with sub second logging interval (e.g. web server logs) as we'll inevitably hit rate limits on the API calls e.g.

[timkoopmans]

Just saw this comment :) https://github.com/nearform/cloudwatchlogs-stream/blob/master/index.js#L35

[jlchereau]

Always hitting AWS SDK ThrottlingException. Added environment variable DEBUG="cloudwatchlogs" to check options. Batching with bulkIndex does not seem to solve the problem with a small number of log entries by any standards (docker-cloudwatch crashes almost immediately upon loading an nginx container and 2 dockerized nodeJS apps each displaying about 20 log entries over a loading time averaging 1 to 2 seconds).