amazon-cloudwatch-agent-fips

CloudWatch Agent enables you to collect and export host-level metrics and logs on instances running Linux or Windows server.

Download this Image

The image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/amazon-cloudwatch-agent:latest

Usage

For full instructions on amazon-cloudwatch-agent, refer to official documentation Please go through it to set the correct permissions. You'll be required to have push access to cloudwatch logs.

The GitHub repository can also be found on GitHub

The cloudwatch-agent image can be used in two ways:

1. Using Helm Charts Below is an example of how to use the helm chart, overriding the upstream image with chainguard image:

helm repo add aws-observability https://aws-observability.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update aws-observability
helm install amazon-cloudwatch-observability aws-observability/amazon-cloudwatch-observability \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace amazon-cloudwatch \
  --set clusterName=my-cluster-name \
  --set region=my-cluster-region \
  --set agent.image.repository=amazon-cloudwatch-agent \
  --set agent.image.repositoryDomainMap.public=cgr.dev/chainguard \
  --set agent.image.tag=latest

2. Using YAML Manifests For using YAML manifests you can follow the official documentation here. You'll be required to replace the image where you deploy the daemonset to the cluster.