How To Install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 is Amazon CloudWatch Agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64`

This package provides daemon of Amazon CloudWatch Agent

We can use yum to install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64.

Install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64

How To Uninstall amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64

amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/etc/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector
/etc/init/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.conf
/etc/init/cwagent-otel-collector.conf
/etc/systemd/system/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.service
/etc/systemd/system/cwagent-otel-collector.service
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/LICENSE
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/NOTICE
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/RELEASE_NOTES
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/CWAGENT_VERSION
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config-downloader
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/config-translator
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/cwagent-otel-collector
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/start-amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/etc
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/etc/cwagent-otel-collector.d
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/logs
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/var
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/cwagent-otel-collector/var/.predefined-config-data
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/doc
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/doc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-schema.json
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.d
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/common-config.toml
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/logs
/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/var
/usr/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl
/var/log/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/var/log/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector
/var/run/amazon/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
/var/run/amazon/cwagent-otel-collector

References

amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-cloudwatch-agent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.