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CloudWatch Agent enables you to collect and export host-level metrics and logs on instances running Linux or Windows server. The Amazon CloudWatch Agent is software developed for the CloudWatch Agent. Collect more system-level metrics from Amazon EC2 instances across operating systems. The metrics can include in-guest metrics, in addition to the metrics for EC2 instances. The additional metrics that can be collected are listed in Metrics Collected by the CloudWatch Agent. Collect system-level metrics from on-premises servers. These can include servers in a hybrid environment as well as servers not managed by AWS. Retrieve custom metrics from your applications or services using the StatsD and collectd protocols. StatsD is supported on both Linux servers and servers running Windows Server. collectd is supported only on Linux servers. Collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, running either Linux or Windows Server.
Features
- The Amazon CloudWatch Agent is software developed for the CloudWatch Agent
- Amazon CloudWatch Agent uses the open-source project telegraf as its dependency
- It operates by starting a telegraf agent with some original plugins and some customized plugins
- The agent uses go modules for dependency management
- Run make build to build the CloudWatch Agent for Linux, Debian, Windows environment
- Run make release to build the agent. This also packages it into a RPM, DEB and ZIP package
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