From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)

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Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows

Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)

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Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows

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- [Instructor] In this demo, we are going to configure the AWS CloudWatch agent on a Windows machine. Here, on the right I have listed all the commands that we are going to run, so you can easily visualize them. Also, you'll find the file in the exercise files, so you don't have to type all the commands here. First, we're going to use an Invoke WebRequest command. This will download the file from a URL, store it in our downloads file, and then execute it. You need to make sure, by going to the CloudWatch documentation, that the URL for the CloudWatch agent is correct, as it might have changed at the time you are watching the video. Let's go ahead and download and install the CloudWatch agent. Now that we installed the CloudWatch agent, we need to verify that it's installed properly. We can use the Get Service and then specify the name, Amazon CloudWatch agent. As we can see, we have the service Amazon CloudWatch agent…

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