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Reputation: 131

Using Cloudwatch log service with older AMIs

I want to use cloudwatch log service for the programs running on older AMIs (2008-2010). Is there a way I can install it on such machines?.

A workaround which I could think of, is to copy log files from these AMIs to the latest AMI with log service installed and upload the logs from there. But the downside is that I will end up paying cost for data transfer. Is there any alternate better way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Jan Vlcinsky
Jan Vlcinsky

Reputation: 44112

When Henry Hahn gives Amazon Deep Dive CloudWatch presentation and says: "I am gonna to do a direct install", you find what you need.

$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cloudwatch/downloads/latest/awslogs-agent-setup.py
$ sudo python awslogs-agent-setup.py --region eu-west-1

(the --region can differ in your case)

accepts defaults.

It shall install a service called awslogs, which can be started/stopped as any other service.

Configuration file can be found at /var/awslogs/etc/awslogs.conf

For me, this worked for my Debian Jessie notebook which is definitely not an EC2 instance, so it shall work for your older EC2 instance as well.

I expect, this will work for RPi instance too (planning to try soon).

Upvotes: 1

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