AWS CloudWatch Configuration

Installing CloudWatch Agent on EC2

Create a EC2 instance(Linux)

Creating the IAM Role for ec2 instance

Search for "AmazonEC2RoleforSSM" and "cloudwatchagent" Press Enter

Attach IAM Role to EC2

sudo yum install amazon-cloudwatch-agent -y

Move to the folder where it is installed

sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard

default choice

Log file path:
/var/log/messages

ec2logforcwagentinstance

cd /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin

sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -s -c file:/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config.json

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y
sudo yum install stress -y(to make loda)

Now go to the EC2-->Cloudwatch