CloudWatch Agent

 Pre-Requisites:

  1. EC2 instance with Appropriate IAM Role (CloudWatchAgentServer Policy

Step 1: Install Unified CloudWatch Agent

yum install amazon-cloudwatch-agent

Step 2: Run the Agent Configuration Wizard:

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

Step 3: Start CloudWatch Agent

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

Documentation Referred:

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

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/create-cloudwatch-agent-configuration-file-wizard.html