cloudwatch agent docker

1. What is CloudWatch agent?
2. How do I monitor a docker container with CloudWatch?
3. How do I push Docker logs to CloudWatch?
4. How do I start CloudWatch agent?
5. How do I know if CloudWatch agent is installed?
6. What is AWS agent?
7. Is AWS CloudWatch free?
8. How do I monitor ECS containers?
9. Are container insights free?
10. Where are the Docker daemon logs?
11. How do I install CloudWatch log agent?
12. How do I check my CloudWatch logs?

What is CloudWatch agent?

The unified CloudWatch agent enables you to do the following: Collect internal 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.

How do I monitor a docker container with CloudWatch?

Steps

1. Understand the bash script. You need a bash script which will check whether your Docker container is up and running or not. ...
2. Explanation of the above script. container variable stores the container id which you want to monitor. ...
3. To execute the script first time just run the following command: ...
4. Put the script in Cron.

How do I push Docker logs to CloudWatch?

Go through the following steps to send your first log message from your container to CloudWatch Logs.

1. Open CloudWatch Logs in the Management Console.
2. Create a log group name docker-logs .
3. Go to IAM and create a role for the use with EC2 named docker-logs and attach the CloudWatchLogsFullAccess policy.

How do I start CloudWatch agent?

Start the CloudWatch Agent Using the Command Line

1. sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -s -c file: configuration-file-path. ...
2. sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m onPremise -s -c file: configuration-file-path.

How do I know if CloudWatch agent is installed?

Verify That the CloudWatch Agent Is Running

1. In the navigation pane, choose Run Command. ...
2. Choose Run command.
3. In the Command document list, choose the button next to AmazonCloudWatch-ManageAgent.
4. In the Action list, choose status.

What is AWS agent?

AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is Amazon software that can be installed and configured on an EC2 instance, an on-premises server, or a virtual machine (VM). ... The agent processes requests from the Systems Manager service in the AWS Cloud, and then runs them as specified in the request.

Is AWS CloudWatch free?

You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free. Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) send metrics automatically for free to CloudWatch. Many applications should be able to operate within these free tier limits.

How do I monitor ECS containers?

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Monitor, store, and access the log files from the containers in your Amazon ECS tasks by specifying the awslogs log driver in your task definitions. This is the only supported method for accessing logs for tasks using the Fargate launch type, but also works with tasks using the EC2 launch type.

Are container insights free?

Metrics collected by Container Insights are charged as custom metrics. For more information about CloudWatch pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing . In Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, Container Insights uses a containerized version of the CloudWatch agent to discover all of the running containers in a cluster.

Where are the Docker daemon logs?

Where to Find the Daemon Log

How do I install CloudWatch log agent?

To install and configure CloudWatch Logs on an existing Amazon Linux instance

1. Connect to your Amazon Linux instance. ...
2. Update your Amazon Linux instance to pick up the latest changes in the package repositories. ...
3. Install the awslogs package. ...
4. Edit the /etc/awslogs/awslogs. ...
5. By default, the /etc/awslogs/awscli.

How do I check my CloudWatch logs?

To view log data

Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ . In the navigation pane, choose Log groups. For Log Groups, choose the log group to view the streams. In the list of log groups, choose the name of the log group that you want to view.