title: Is there a way to truncate a field value in CloudWatch?
body: <p>Suppose I have a simple Insights query like so</p>
  
  <pre><code>fields @timestamp, @message
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to truncate the @message field. For example, say I only want to skip the 1st 50 characters.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can use the parse function but is there a simpler way, an substring equivalent that I can use in the fields line perhaps</p>