Collect Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 instances with the CloudWatch Agent

In this video we show you how you configure and deploy the CloudWatch Agent, collect metrics and logs from your Windows instances and provide actionable data.

[Vinod_Kumar]

One key thing to note while answering to questionnaire from cloudwatch agent wizard is the question related to "collectD". If we blindly accept the default value of "Yes" and if that "collectD" binary is not installed on that EC2 instance then the agent will not start in the end during the run command execution on Systems Manager. I got this error -> "Error running agent: Error parsing /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.toml, open /usr/share/collectd/types.db: no such file or directory". I had faced this issue and was finally able to debug its root cause. Either we have to say "no" to that question or install the binary on EC2 instance or we can create this dummy folder and file by executing mkdir -p /usr/share/collectd/
touch /usr/share/collectd/types.db on instance to resolve the issue

[AlkoWazuskii]

Thank you for this. Very nice, has much explained!!

[easyappscompany]

Best Regards From Mexico City. Manuel Silva

[chrisbuzon]

Is there a way to send/pass the actual log message via an email alert?

[crisan]

hi and thanks for your video
is there an alternative on linux VMs to "Do you want to monitor any Windows event log?"
thanks

[nealewhite]

followed the demo, but when trying to deploy samr config to other servers no metrix are shown.

[SandeepSingh-hnit]

Thanks Sir, but bit confusion, I am IAM user having admin permission, So i can or only root user to perform this ? how to do in Linux CentOs1. it is the same steps to follow for disk and mem metric?

[M_RPH]

Is there a way to get memory of db instance class
For example db.r5.large = 16GB
This data is present in hardware specifications.
But is there a way to get it using Boto?

[JyotiSingh-qhjm]

Hi, users can have consolidated monitoring for multiple accounts. This account today is only accessible via Administrator Access role and need a solution to allow non-admin users to this account and also need permissions to create Cross-Account-Cross-Region Dashboards.

How this can be done?

[jayaraut]

How can we get the cpu utilization metric into log group it will only be shown in metric tab not in log group.

[mrshark]

In system manager, there is no option for "Managed Instances"

[Amalokch]

Does anyone knows if I should pay if I. want to monitor the disk usage using this method?

[chitrangsharma]

How to log form data.? Over Cloudwatch ????

[dadroe]

Thank you for this. I carefully followed your instructions in the video, but unable to view the IISLogs and EventLog-System. Will they automatically appear after you configuration or will you create a log group named IISLogs?

[themanishin]

This video seems to be generated by an AI. Does anybody know if my suspicion is true?

[ajinkyagadge]

I want a script to fetch cloudwatch's ec2 metrics through get-metric-data api.