How to start the cloudwatch agent in container?

Question

From the docker hub there is an image which is maintained by amazon.

Any one know how to configure and start the container as I cannot find any documen

Answer 1

You just to run the container with log-opt, as the log agent is the main process of the container.

docker run --log-driver=awslogs --log-opt awslogs-region=us-west-2 --log-opt awslogs-group=myLogGroup amazon/cloudwatch-agent

You can find more details here and here.

I do not know why you need an agent in a container, but the best practice is to send each container log directly to cloud watch using aws log driver.

Btw this is entrypoint of the container.

  "Entrypoint": [
         "/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/start-amazon-cloudwatch-agent"
 ],

All you need to call

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