Alexandre-io / ansible-amazon-linux-cloudwatch-logs-agent

Ansible role that install AWS CloudWatch Log Agent on Amazon Linux

Ansible Amazon Linux Cloudwatch Logs Agent

Doc

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/EC2NewInstanceCWL.html

Requirements

An Amazon Linux 2 based system

Role Variables

logs, extra_logs: list of logs with the following keys:

Name	Description	Required	Default
file	Full path to log file	Yes
format	Datetime format	No	None
group_name	CloudWatch Log Group	Yes
stream_name	CloudWatch Log Stream Name	No	The instance id

Playbook Example

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    logs:
      - file: /var/log/auth.log
        format: "%b %d %H:%M:%S"
        group_name: "auth"
        stream_name: "auth-stream"
      - file: /home/ubuntu/.bash_history
        group_name: "bash_history"
  roles:
     - { role: ansible-amazon-linux-cloudwatch-logs-agent }

License

MIT

Author Information

Alexandre L.