Amazon CloudWatch now provides a visual configuration editor for the CloudWatch agent directly in the Amazon EC2 console, enabling you to set up and manage observability for your EC2 instances without hand-editing JSON. The CloudWatch agent collects infrastructure and application metrics, logs, and traces from EC2 instances and sends them to CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. With the new visual editor, you can build agent configurations graphically, selecting metrics, log sources, and deployment targets, and deploy with a single click.
From the EC2 console, you can select one or more instances, install the CloudWatch agent, or create tag-based policies for automated fleet-wide management. From the instance detail page, you can view agent status, update configurations, and troubleshoot agent health. Automated policies automatically apply the correct monitoring settings to every new instance, including those launched by auto-scaling.
To get started, navigate to the Amazon EC2 console, select an instance, and choose the EC2 monitoring tab to access the CloudWatch agent management experience. CloudWatch in-console agent management is available in all AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies for metrics, logs, and other telemetry collected by the agent.
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Source: Amazon Web Services
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