AWS Cloudwatch Agent

General Discussion
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Anyone managed to get this installed on their AWS Clear Linux servers? I’m needing to monitor memory usage via Cloud Watch.

That requires the Cloudwatch Agent to be installed.

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The instructions seem relatively simple - i.e. download their scripts, and run them. You may need to install one of the perl bundles (sudo swupd bundle-add perl-extras?) to get all the support needed, but, it’s likely to work.

Give it a try?

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Great. Let me give that a try

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Worked like a charm. THANK YOU!. Surprisingly smooth even for a noob like me :slight_smile:

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Awesome! Glad it all worked - and thanks for reporting back.

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In case anyone is wanting to do this, here’s the server commands to get going with CloudWatch monitoring on a CL server. For the Amazon side, please refer to the online guides.

ssh clear@yourserver # login as root

# Install extra perl goodies like CA Certs needed or https libs
sudo swupd bundle-add perl-extras
# Install cronie to edit crontab
sudo swupd bundle-add cronie

#Download the sauce and unpack
curl https://aws-cloudwatch.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip -O
unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip && rm CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip && cd aws-scripts-mon

# add CloudWatch credentials to conf file
echo "AWSAccessKeyId=xxxxxxxxxxxx"               >> awscreds.conf
echo "AWSSecretKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"    >> awscreds.conf

# Add cronjob to update stats every minute
echo "*/1 * * * * /home/clear/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-used-incl-cache-buff --mem-util --disk-space-util --disk-path=/ --from-cron" | sudo crontab -

Voila!

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forgot to add

# start cronie
sudo systemctl enable cronie.service --now

you need that to make chron work if you’ve just installed it.