AWS CloudWatch agent

AWS CloudWatch agent (Dec 2017)

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html

• Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent/ubuntu/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb

• AWS CloudWatch agent installation
• Logs:
  • /var/log/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/
  • /var/log/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.log
• Policy: CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy
• Metrics:
  • disk_used_percent
  • mem_used_percent, mem_used and mem_available

Binaries

• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/cwagent-otel-collector
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config-translator
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config-downloader
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/start-amazon-cloudwatch-agent

Activities

• Read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-commandline-fleet.html
• Read: https://gauravguptacloud.medium.com/aws-cloudwatch-agent-installation-for-memory-metric-integrate-with-grafana-365404154
• Collect metrics, logs, and traces with the CloudWatch agent
• Monitor memory and disk metrics for Amazon EC2 Linux instances

Related terms

• Metric colletion tools: Metricbeat, sysstat
• Prometheus Node exporter releases
• CloudWatch agent
• Zabbix agent
• Terraform cloudwatch
• CPUUtilization

See also

• AWS CloudWatch agent: amazon-cloudwatch-agent, amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl, /var/log/amazon/, CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy, mem_used_percent, StatsD, CollectD
• AWS monitoring: AWS CloudWatch: Logs, Logs Insights, Events, Alarms, aws cloudwatch, aws logs, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, CloudWatch Dashboard, AWS CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards, Amazon RDS Performance Insights, Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, CloudwatchLogsGroup, Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, cloudwatch kms key id, CloudWatch agent, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, namespace, Synthetics, Synthetics Canaries, YACE, Prometheus cloudwatch exporter, Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Live Tail