---
title: "Use AWS SDK for logging"
section: "frontend/logging"
platforms: ["android", "swift"]
gen: 2
last-updated: "2026-03-25T17:40:00.000Z"
url: "https://docs.amplify.aws/react/frontend/logging/sdk/"
---

For advanced use cases where Amplify does not provide the functionality, you can retrieve the escape hatch to access the underlying Amazon CloudWatch client.

<!-- Platform: android -->
The escape hatch provides access to the underlying `CloudWatchLogsClient` instance. Then retrieve the escape hatch with this code:

**Gradle Imports**

```kotlin title="app/build.gradle.kts" 
implementation("aws.sdk.kotlin:cloudwatchlogs:KOTLIN_SDK_VERSION")
```

#### [Java]

```java
AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin plugin = (AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin)Amplify.Logging.getPlugin("awsCloudWatchLoggingPlugin");
CloudWatchLogsClient client = plugin.getEscapeHatch();
```

#### [Kotlin]

```kotlin
val plugin = Amplify.Logging.getPlugin("awsCloudWatchLoggingPlugin") as AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin
val client = plugin.escapeHatch
```

#### [RxJava]

```java
AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin plugin = (AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin)Amplify.Logging.getPlugin("awsCloudWatchLoggingPlugin");
CloudWatchLogsClient client = plugin.getEscapeHatch();
```

<!-- /Platform -->

<!-- Platform: swift -->
Add import statements

```swift
import AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin
import AWSCloudWatchLogs
```

Get a direct reference to the instance of CloudWatchLogsClientProtocol and directly interact with AWSCloudWatch via the [AWS SDK for Swift](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-swift/index.html)

```swift
let cloudWatchPlugin = try Amplify.Logging.getPlugin(for: "awsCloudWatchLoggingPlugin") as? AWSCloudWatchLoggingPlugin
let cloudWatchClient: CloudWatchLogsClientProtocol? = cloudWatchPlugin?.getEscapeHatch()
```
<!-- /Platform -->