Installing and Configuring Cloud Watch Logs agent

Resolution

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/QuickStartEC2Instance.html

1. IAM policy required for the instance to send Cloudwatch logs

{

"Version": "2012-10-17",

"Statement": [

{

"Effect": "Allow",

"Action": [

"logs:CreateLogGroup",

"logs:CreateLogStream",

"logs:PutLogEvents",

"logs:DescribeLogStreams"

],

"Resource": [

"arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"

   ]

     }

   ]

}

1. For Downloading and Configuring Agent
   1. sudo curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cloudwatch/downloads/latest/awslogs-agent-setup.py -O
   2. sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1
   3. hostname
   4. %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S
2. sudo vi /var/awslogs/etc/awslogs.conf
3. sudo service awslogs restart