How do i install cloudwatch logs agent on my aws instance?

giraffelife

Link: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/QuickStartEC2Instance.html

The process differs between the type of linux OS, read the notes in the link.

For Amazon Linux

$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y awslogs

Edit /etc/awslogs/awscli.conf
region = us-east-1
aws_access_key_id = <YOUR ACCESS KEY>
aws_secret_access_key = <YOUR SECRET KEY>

$ sudo service awslogs start
$ sudo chkconfig awslogs on

On other Linux types.

$ curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cloudwatch/downloads/latest/awslogs-agent-setup.py -O
$ sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1
Launching interactive setup of CloudWatch Logs agent ... 

Step 1 of 5: Installing pip ...DONE

Step 2 of 5: Downloading the latest CloudWatch Logs agent bits ... DONE

Step 3 of 5: Configuring AWS CLI ... 
AWS Access Key ID [****************TA]: 
AWS Secret Access Key [****************jS]: 
Default region name [us-west-2]: 
Default output format [text]: 

Step 4 of 5: Configuring the CloudWatch Logs Agent ... 
Path of log file to upload [/var/log/messages]: 
Destination Log Group name [/var/log/messages]: 

Choose Log Stream name:
  1. Use EC2 instance id.
  2. Use hostname.
  3. Custom.
Enter choice [1]: 

Choose Log Event timestamp format:
  1. %b %d %H:%M:%S    (Dec 31 23:59:59)
  2. %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S (10/Oct/2000:13:55:36)
  3. %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (2008-09-08 11:52:54)
  4. Custom
Enter choice [1]: 

Choose initial position of upload:
  1. From start of file.
  2. From end of file.
Enter choice [1]: 
More log files to configure? [Y]: N

Step 5 of 5: Setting up agent as a daemon ...DONE


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- Configuration file successfully saved at: /var/awslogs/etc/awslogs.conf
- You can begin accessing new log events after a few moments at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#logs:
- You can use 'sudo service awslogs start|stop|status|restart' to control the daemon.
- To see diagnostic information for the CloudWatch Logs Agent, see /var/log/awslogs.log
- You can rerun interactive setup using 'sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1 --only-generate-config'
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