Athena Table for ALB Logs

alb_logs.sql

-- This creates an athena table that can parse ALB logs.
-- Advantage of this over others are this works when the log ends with a trailing space
-- plus it also breaks the http request into route and params for easier grouping

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS alb_logs (
    type string, 
    timestamp string, 
    elb string, 
    client_ip string, 
    client_port int,
    target_ip string,
    target_port int, 
    request_processing_time double, 
    target_processing_time double,
    response_processing_time double,
    elb_status_code string,
    target_status_code string,
    received_bytes bigint,
    sent_bytes bigint,
    request_verb string, 
    protocol string, 
    host string,
    port int,
    route string,
    params string,
    httpversion string, 
    user_agent string,
    ssl_cipher string,
    ssl_protocol string,
    target_group_arn string,
    trace_id string )
PARTITIONED BY(year string, month string, day string)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.RegexSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
 'serialization.format' = '1','input.regex' =
'(.*?) (.*?) (.*?) ([0-9.]+):([0-9]*) ([0-9.]+):([0-9]*) ([.0-9]*) ([.0-9]*) ([.0-9]*) (-|[0-9]*) (-|[0-9]*) ([-0-9]*) ([-0-9]*) "(.*?) (.*?)://(.*?):([0-9]+)([^? ]*)(\\x3f?.*?) (.*?)" "(.*?)" (.*?) (.*?) (.*?) "(.*?)" *$'
   ) 
LOCATION 's3://bucket/api-alb/external/AWSLogs/accountid/elasticloadbalancing/us-west-2/'

doesn't work... i'm getting zero records... can someone advise on the possible problem? running the aws tutorial worked

I was facing the same issue. It's because the location does not hold any logs. Check the location