What is the CloudWatch Agent?
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudWatch agent is a piece of software that lets you gather and keep track of metrics, logs, and events from various AWS resources and applications operating on your servers. It functions via virtual machines, on-premises servers, and an EC2 instance. It enables you to obtain insightful information and performance statistics that can be applied to analysis, monitoring, and troubleshooting in real time.
How to Run and Install the CloudWatch Agent on Your Servers?
Amazon CloudWatch is a powerful tool that is used to collect metrics on resources and monitor their performance of the resources. It can monitor system-level metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, and disk space and also the application levels metrics like requests per second and error rates. By collecting these data it will help the developers to analyze and know the performance of the servers.