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

try this dockerfile:

FROM amazonlinux:2.0.20190508
RUN yum -y install https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent/amazon_linux/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.rpm
COPY agent.json  /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/default_linux_config.json
ENV RUN_IN_CONTAINER=True
ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/start-amazon-cloudwatch-agent"]

json example:

  {
      "agent": {
        "metrics_collection_interval": 10,
        "logfile": "/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/logs/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.log"
      },
      "metrics": {
        "metrics_collected": {
          "cpu": {
            "resources": [
              "*"
            ],
            "measurement": [
              {"name": "cpu_usage_idle", "rename": "CPU_USAGE_IDLE", "unit": "Percent"},
              {"name": "cpu_usage_nice", "unit": "Percent"},
              "cpu_usage_guest"
            ],
            "totalcpu": false,
            "metrics_collection_interval": 10,
            "append_dimensions": {
              "customized_dimension_key_1": "customized_dimension_value_1",
              "customized_dimension_key_2": "customized_dimension_value_2"
            }
          },
          "disk": {
            "resources": [
              "/",
   .
   .
   .
   .
}