AWS CloudWatch agent installation

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-on-EC2-Instance.html

• Amazon linux: sudo yum install amazon-cloudwatch-agent

• Ubuntu:

dpkg -i amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb
Selecting previously unselected package amazon-cloudwatch-agent.
(Reading database ... 635097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb ...
create group cwagent, result: 0
create user cwagent, result: 0
Unpacking amazon-cloudwatch-agent (1.247349.0b251399-1) ...
Setting up amazon-cloudwatch-agent (1.247349.0b251399-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ...

• dpkg -L amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /opt
• /opt/aws
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/logs
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/var
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.d
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/common-config.toml
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/logs
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/var
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/var/.predefined-config-data
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/etc
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/etc/cwagent-otel-collector.d
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/CWAGENT_VERSION
• /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
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/doc
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/doc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-schema.json
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/LICENSE
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/NOTICE
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES
• /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/RELEASE_NOTES
• /etc
• /etc/init
• /etc/init/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.conf
• /etc/init/cwagent-otel-collector.conf
• /etc/systemd
• /etc/systemd/system
• /etc/systemd/system/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.service
• /etc/systemd/system/cwagent-otel-collector.service
• /etc/amazon
• /usr
• /usr/bin
• /var
• /var/log
• /var/log/amazon
• /var/run
• /var/run/amazon
• /etc/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /etc/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector
• /usr/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl
• /var/log/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /var/log/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector
• /var/run/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
• /var/run/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector