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Matt Houser edited this page Nov 14, 2016 · 5 revisions

Installation

The installation is manual, but not too bad.

  1. On your EC2 instance, create a folder in your "C:" root directory called "CloudWatchMonitor". You can make the folder anywhere, this is just an example.
  2. Unzip the binary package below into your new folder.
  3. We recommend using IAM roles for permissions, but if you must use access keys, then:
  • Using notepad, edit CloudWatchMonitor.config to add your Amazon Access Keys.
  1. Execute CloudWatchMonitor.exe.

At this point, the monitor should be running in console mode. You should see it collecting data and submitting to Amazon CloudWatch. If you go to the CloudWatch portion of the Amazon AWS Management Console, you should start seeing metrics after a few minutes.

If you would like to install this as a Windows service, please do the following:

  1. As administrator, execute "CloudWatchMonitor.exe -i". This will tell the service to self-install.
  2. Either reboot your instance, or navigate to Control Panel, Services to start your service. The service is called "CloudWatch Monitor".

To uninstall the Windows service, please do the following:

  1. As administrator, execute "CloudWatchMonitor.exe -u". This will tell the service to self-uninstall.
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