What is a CloudWatch agent?

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What is a CloudWatch agent?

The unified CloudWatch agent enables you to do the following: Collect internal system-level metrics from Amazon EC2 instances across operating systems. Collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, running either Linux or Windows Server.

How do I set up a CloudWatch agent?

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  1. Download the CloudWatch agent package using an S3 download link.
  2. (Installing on an EC2 instance) Attaching an IAM role.
  3. (Installing on an on-premises server) Specify IAM credentials and AWS Region.
  4. Verify internet access.
  5. (Optional) Modify the common configuration for proxy or Region information.

Is CloudWatch agent running?

You can query the CloudWatch agent to find whether it’s running or stopped. You can use AWS Systems Manager to do this remotely. You can also use the command line, but only to check the local server. Open the Systems Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/ .

What port does CloudWatch agent use?

Installing the CloudWatch agent on EC2 Once you have installed the agent, configure the agent to listen on a UDP or TCP port for the embedded metric format logs. The following is an example of this configuration that listens on the default socket tcp:25888 .

What is difference between CloudWatch and CloudTrail?

The difference between AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail AWS CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and applications, whereas CloudTrail monitors the activity in your AWS environment. For instance, with CloudWatch, you can scale your applications, whereas, with CloudTrail, you can see who did what to your applications.

Is CloudWatch agent free?

Free tier. You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free. Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) send metrics automatically for free to CloudWatch.

What is CloudWatch vs CloudTrail?

CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS resources and applications. CloudTrail is a web service that records API activity in your AWS account. They are both useful monitoring tools in AWS. With CloudWatch, you can collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.

How do I install CloudWatch log agent?

To install and configure CloudWatch Logs on an existing Amazon Linux instance

  1. Connect to your Amazon Linux instance.
  2. Update your Amazon Linux instance to pick up the latest changes in the package repositories.
  3. Install the awslogs package.
  4. Edit the /etc/awslogs/awslogs.
  5. By default, the /etc/awslogs/awscli.

How do I know if CloudWatch is enabled?

Using AWS Console 04 Select the EC2 instance that you want to examine. 05 Select the Description tab from the dashboard bottom panel. 06 Verify the Monitoring attribute value to determine the level of CloudWatch monitoring enabled for the instance.

Can I SSH into fargate?

I can confirm, yes you can SSH into a Fargate container by running sshd and properly configuring the security group.

How do I enable CloudWatch?

Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.
  2. Select the instance and choose Actions, Monitoring, Manage detailed monitoring.
  3. On the Detailed monitoring detail page, for Detailed monitoring, select the Enable check box.
  4. Choose Save.

What is a CloudTrail?

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services.