Amazon CloudWatch Agent Amazon.com, Inc.

The Amazon CloudWatch Agent is a monitoring tool designed to collect metrics, logs, and traces from Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, and applications. It provides comprehensive visibility into system performance and application behavior across hybrid environments.

Key Features:

• Collects detailed system-level metrics from EC2 instances and on-premises servers.
• Retrieves custom metrics using StatsD and collectd protocols for enhanced monitoring of applications.
• Logs collection support for both Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Enables trace collection via OpenTelemetry and AWS X-Ray for deeper insights into application performance.
• Capable of being installed via winget for easy deployment.

Audience & Benefit:

Ideal for DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and IT operations teams, the CloudWatch Agent offers a unified approach to monitoring. By consolidating metrics, logs, and traces, it reduces the complexity of managing multiple agents, streamlining observability efforts and improving operational efficiency.