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Install Amazon CloudWatch Agent

Collect metrics, logs, and traces with the Amazon CloudWatch agent

Install with winget
winget install --id Amazon.CloudWatchAgent
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id Amazon.CloudWatchAgent
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id Amazon.CloudWatchAgent

About Amazon CloudWatch Agent

The Amazon CloudWatch Agent enables you to do the following: - Collect more 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. The additional metrics that can be collected are listed in Metrics Collected by the CloudWatch Agent. - Collect system-level metrics from on-premises servers. These can include servers in a hybrid environment as well as servers not managed by AWS. - Retrieve custom metrics from your...

Version history

Version Updated Notes
1.4.37923 Unknown Release notes
1.4.37922 Unknown Enhancements: * Downgrade PMD error logs for systemmetrics pipeline * Bump xpath from 1.3.4 to 1.3.6
1.4.37920 Unknown Enhancements: * Bump Go version
1.4.37919 Unknown Features: * [ContainerInsights] Add Instance Store NVME metrics translation for EKS environments * [ContainerInsights] Add EFA Metrics to Container Insights for EKS environments
1.4.37918 Unknown Features: * [ContainerInsights] Enable opt-in for high frequency GPU metrics collection with configurable intervals for ML inference workloads Enhancements: * [Logs] Fallback to iterative DescribeLogGroups if batch API n...
1.4.37917 Unknown Enchancements: *[Agent] Add support for EC2 metadata as dimensions for host metrics *[Agent] Add support for AutoScalingGroup as a dimension for host metrics *[Agent] Add support for usage_metadata field in agent section...
1.4.37916 Unknown Features: * [Metrics] Adding NVME Instance Store metrics * [ContainerInsights] Added Ingress, PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim metrics Enhancements: * [Agent] RPM size reduction by optimizing helper binaries Bu...
1.4.37915 Unknown Release notes
1.4.37913 Unknown Release notes
1.4.37912 Unknown Features: * [ContainerInsights] Ingest EBS NVME metrics exposed by aws-ebs-csi-driver Enhancements: * [Application Signals] Enable customizable attribute copying from resources to metrics for better metric organization *...
1.4.37911 Unknown Enhancements: * Go1.24 dependency bump
1.4.37910 Unknown Features: * [EFA] Added Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID as a dimension to EFA (Elastic Fabric Adapter) metrics Enhancements: * [ContainerInsights] Switched to using EndpointSlices instead of Endpoints for improved per...
1.4.37909 Unknown Bug Fixes: * [Related Telemetry] Fix EKS cluster detection when aws-auth config map does not exist * [Logs] Reduce PutRetentionPolicy calls by checking existing policy * [Logs] Fix data races in cloudwatchlogs Enhancemen...
1.4.37908 Unknown Bug Fixes: * Fix concurrent map read/write error causing agent crashes in entity store * Fix disk usage metrics collection on macOS * Fix service startup failures on Windows by updating network depenencies Enhancements:...