examples

CloudWatch

Run Unified Agent on EC2 - for memory usage & logs forwarding

1. attach CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy IAM Policy to EC2 Instance Profile's Role

2. ssh to your EC2 instance

3. download

   wget https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent-us-east-1/amazon_linux/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm
   

4. install

   sudo rpm -U ./amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm
   

5. create Unified Agent config file at /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config.json, or run config wizard:

   sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard
   

6. run Unified Agent

       sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -c file:/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config.json -s
   

7. new metrics should show up under NameSpace CWAgent and logs under log_group_name configured in config file