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

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

Installation

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

Activities

• Read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-commandline-fleet.html

Related terms

• Metric colletion tools: Metricbeat, sysstat
• Prometheus Node exporter releases
• CloudWatch agent
• Zabbix agent
• dpkg

See also

• 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
• AWS, Amazon Managed Services, AWS Management & Governance, computing, security, networking, AWS compliance, AWS Outposts AWS Free Tier, AWS certifications, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Management, AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, AWS dev: (CodeStar, Cloud9), AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Resource Access Manager, AWS Quick Starts, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Enterprise support, AWS support, AWS Professional Services Consultants, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Marketplace, AWS CLI, AWS Management Console, AWS acceptable use policy, amazonaws.com, Quotas, AWS Support plans, AWS Resource Explorer, AWS Managed Services (AMS), AWS savings, AWS Nitro System, AWS Activate, Serverless, AWS timeline