CloudWatch Agent on Lightsail

Step 4: Appling the Credentials

Back in the Lightsail terminal from Step 2 I added the newly created credentials to allow the CW Agent to reach into my AWS account and provide information to Cloud Watch.

A minor issue I ran into was the OS and installed packages, the AWS CLI was not installed.

For the duration I switched to root and installed the missing system dependencies.

sudo su

apt-get update -y &&apt-get install -y python-pip

This installs the Python dependency manager called PIP. Since the AWS-CLI is written in Python, PIP is the prefered method of installation (though other ways exist).

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

Making good progress so far.

export PATH=$PATH:/root/.local/bin

aws configure --profile AmazonCloudWatchAgent

This is where I needed to provide the ID and API key created in the console last step. 

Now that the credentials part is all over on to the next step.