Install Cloudwatch agent on on-premises Linux server

Posted on by Sandip Patel

Configure AWS CLI in your machine using the following command:

sudo apt install awscli

Create access key and secret key of any user in your AWS account and provide it in your machine using below command:

aws configure

Now download and install cloudwatch agent on linux host:

  1. wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent/ubuntu/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb
  2. sudo dpkg -i -E ./amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb

Now, Create credentials file where ever you like as per below image:

Update the common-config.toml file for credentials file location using below command:

sudo vim /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/common-config.toml

Here, I created credentials file in /home/jeel directory :


Create config file and store in SSM Parameter store with the name “AmazonCloudWatch-linux”

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

Note: You can see that in AWS system manager in parameter store “AmazonCloudWatch-linux” is added

Now, Import the config, and start the agent

sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m onPremise -c ssm:AmazonCloudWatch-linux -s

OUTPUT:

You can see the cloudwatch metrics in your AWS console