The Amazon Cloudwatch Agent is software developed for the Cloudwatch Agent
The Amazon CloudWatch Agent enables you to do the following:
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. For more information, see Go Modules
Install rpm-build
sudo yum install -y rpmdevtools rpm-build
Run
make buildto build the Cloudwatch Agent for Linux, Debian, Windows environment.
Run
make releaseto build the agent. This also packages it into a RPM, DEB and ZIP package.
The following folders are generated when the build completes:
build/bin/linux/arm64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm build/bin/linux/amd64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm build/bin/linux/arm64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb build/bin/linux/amd64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb build/bin/windows/amd64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.zip build/bin/darwin/amd64/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.tar.gz
1. rpm package* `rpm -Uvh amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm`
deb package
dpkg -i -E ./amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb
windows package
- unzip
amazon-cloudwatch-agent.zip
./install.ps1
darwin package
tar -xvf amazon-cloudwatch-agent.tar.gz
cp -rf ./opt/aws /opt
cp -rf ./Library/LaunchDaemons/com.amazon.cloudwatch.agent.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
See Dockerfiles.
The following targets are available. Each may be run with
make.
| Make Target | Description | |:-------------------------|:------------| |
build|
buildbuilds the agent for Linux, Debian and Windows amd64 environment | |
release| (Default)
releasebuilds the agent and also packages it into a RPM, DEB and ZIP package | |
clean|
cleanremoves build artifacts | |
dockerized-build| build using docker container without local go environment |
It is using Semantic versioning
You can download the official release from S3, refer to link
If you think you’ve found a potential security issue, please do not post it in the Issues. Instead, please follow the instructions here or email AWS security directly.
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