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A flow log you can actually search — Ecosystem

Glossary

Mind map

Open the Troubleshooting mind map

Sister technologies

The useful habit is to name the hop, the ContactId, the counter, and the log line before you edit the flow.

Config and troubleshooting

Filtering the last hour of all errors and 'fixing' an unrelated contact.

The troubleshooting habit starts with a log line. ContactflowLogs on the instance is what lets Set logging behavior write to CloudWatch.

AWS::Connect::Instance

CloudFormation study snippet
Resources:
  CampusInstance:
    Type: AWS::Connect::Instance
    Properties:
      IdentityManagementType: SAML
      InstanceAlias: campus-demo
      Attributes:
        InboundCalls: true
        OutboundCalls: true
        ContactflowLogs: true

Integration map

Join records on ContactId. The integration map room lists the seams.

Cross-platform bridges

A CUCM calling search space is not a routing profile, but the profile is the closest idea of 'who can receive what'. A partition is not a Connect object. A UCCX CSQ and a UCCE skill group map to a queue. Precision steps map to routing criteria. A script, an Architect flow, and an Avaya vector map to a contact flow.

Open the mapping room

Future hooks

Hooks you can adopt later: EventBridge contact events, the CTR stream, agent events, Kinesis Video, Customer Profiles events, Cases, Show view, data tables, External Tool, and the flow language JSON in your pipeline. Live Sync and Agentic CX are the 2026 hooks for guided and agentic experiences.

Sources and go deeper

sources.json