CloudWatch Logs for EC2 Tutorial

Learn about CloudWatch Logs for EC2 and how to set up CloudWatch Logs Agent!
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I'm Stephane Maarek, a consultant and software developer, and I have a particular interest in everything related to Big Data, Cloud and API. I sat on the 2019 Program Committee organizing the Kafka Summit. I'm also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps Administrator, and DevOps Engineer.

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[mathewkargarzadeh]

Very nice and simple tutorial on CloudWatch. Thanks !!

[jvmusicph]

Can I monitor here what time the instances turned off/on / Boot confirmation?

[AnAyahaDay]

It is not working with Python 3.8.
I have other application that needs python 3.8. So now what should I do?

[SureshBabu-rxdl]

Great explanation.. as always. Thank you.

[K]

Great guide...truely masta...how to remove the agent mate?..Please advice..

[AnAyahaDay]

Thank you, I used your tutorial to setup cloudwatch agent on my EC2 instance, but on my other EC2 instance, it is not working as I have python 3.8 on it.

[manojrangera]

can anyone tell me how did he save region_name? which keyword letter is use to do so?

[chitrangsharma]

Anyone please help !!!!
How can I log my form data over Cloudwatch in PHP ..
Following the docs but no getting it completely

[bhagyashreejoshi]

Hi, thank you for the video ...I have done mentioned setup but cannot see /var/logs/messages log group in cloudwatch

[riteshsrivastav]

Hey, Can you please tell me, how it setup on ubuntu server

[nahnahson]

Soooo... Essentially this is rsyslog, but costs money.