Paul Ligocki

SetUp CloudWatch Monitoring for an Apache Web Server Errors

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SetUp CloudWatch Monitoring for an Apache Web Server

In this write up we will configure a Web Server to ship its error logs
/var/log/apache2/error.log
off to AWS CloudWatch.
You will need to setup and IAM access key or an IAM Roles to give he server permission to ship the logs off to CloudWatch

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/var/log/apache2/error.log

Install CloudWatch Agent

curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cloudwatch/downloads/latest/awslogs-agent-setup.py -O

sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1

Configure CloudWatch Agent (IAM Key)

Step 1 of 5: Installing pip ...libyaml-dev does not exist in system python-dev does not exist in system DONE

Step 2 of 5: Downloading the latest CloudWatch Logs agent bits ... DONE

Step 3 of 5: Configuring AWS CLI ... 
AWS Access Key ID [None]: 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
AWS Secret Access Key [None]:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Default region name [us-east-1]: 
Default output format [None]: 

Step 4 of 5: Configuring the CloudWatch Logs Agent ... 
Path of log file to upload [/var/log/syslog]:
/var/log/apache2/error.log
Destination Log Group name [/var/log/apache2/error.lol]: 

Choose Log Stream name:
  1. Use EC2 instance id.
  2. Use hostname.
  3. Custom.
Enter choice [1]: 1

Choose Log Event timestamp format:
  1. %b %d %H:%M:%S    (Dec 31 23:59:59)
  2. %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S (10/Oct/2000:13:55:36)
  3. %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (2008-09-08 11:52:54)
  4. Custom
Enter choice [1]: 3

Choose initial position of upload:
  1. From start of file.
  2. From end of file.
Enter choice [1]: 1
More log files to configure? [Y]: N

Step 5 of 5: Setting up agent as a daemon ...DONE
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- Configuration file successfully saved at: /var/awslogs/etc/awslogs.conf
- You can begin accessing new log events after a few moments at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#logs:
- You can use 'sudo service awslogs start|stop|status|restart' to control the daemon.
- To see diagnostic information for the CloudWatch Logs Agent, see /var/log/awslogs.log
- You can rerun interactive setup using 'sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1 --only-generate-config'
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You can vie the log by following the link provided
https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#logs:

View Log in CloudWatch

CloudWatch>Log groups>/var/log/apache2/error.log>i-00000000000000000
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