Amazon CloudWatch now offers an in-console experience for automated installation and configuration of the Amazon CloudWatch agent on EC2 instances. Amazon CloudWatch agent is used by developers and SREs to collect infrastructure and application metrics, logs, and traces from EC2 and send them to CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. This new experience provides visibility into agent status across your EC2 fleet, performs automatic detection of supported workloads, and leverages CloudWatch observability solutions to recommend monitoring configurations based on detected workloads.
Customers can now deploy the CloudWatch agent through one-click installation to individual instances or by creating tag-based policies for automated fleet-wide management. The automated policies ensure newly launched instances, including those created through auto-scaling, are automatically configured with the appropriate monitoring settings. By simplifying agent deployment and providing intelligent configuration recommendations, customers can ensure consistent monitoring across their environment while reducing setup time from hours to minutes.
Amazon CloudWatch agent is available in the following AWS regions: Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (Sao Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central).
To get starting with Amazon CloudWatch agent in the CloudWatch console, see Installing the CloudWatch agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
Categories: general:products/amazon-ec2,marketing:marchitecture/management-and-governance,general:products/amazon-cloudwatch,marketing:marchitecture/compute
Source: Amazon Web Services
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