AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts

This is an Ansible role that installs the AWS CloudWatch Logs agent and monitoring scripts on Enterprise Linux.

For more information, visit: AWS CloudWatch Quick Start for EC2

The role also installs a monitoring script for Linux to check memory, CPU, swap, and more. You must attach a role to your instance (or use credentials) to write to CloudWatch.

See more here: Monitoring Scripts for EC2

Requirements

You must attach a role to your EC2 instance to send messages to AWS CloudWatch.

Refer to: AWS CloudWatch Quick Start for EC2

Role Variables

aws_mon_script_install_dir: "/opt"
aws_mon_script_url: "https://aws-cloudwatch.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip"

Dependencies

This implementation is written in Perl, so some CPAN libraries are needed.

- role: blackstar257.perl
  vars:
    perl_cpanm_modules:
      - Switch
      - DateTime

Note that the AWS CloudWatch Agent needs to be installed first. While this isn't a required role dependency, you may want to run this role in your playbook before the one mentioned above:

- src: git+https://github.com/riponbanik/ansible-role-aws-cloudwatch-agent.git
  name: riponbanik.aws-cloudwatch-agent
  version: 80203e57822b3c1424460a9d222f47f668e114e7

Example Playbook

Here’s how to use this role, showing an example playbook including variables:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - deekayen.cloudwatch_monitoring_scripts

License

MIT