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Metrics_collection_interval – Optional. Specifies how often all metrics specified in this configuration file are to be collected. You can override this value for specific types of metrics. This value is specified in seconds. For example, specifying 10 causes metrics to be collected every 10 seconds, and setting it to 300 specifies metrics to be collected every 5 minutes. If you set this value below 60 seconds, each metric is collected as a high-resolution metric. The default value is 60.
The following is an example of an agent section. You can modify the interval from 60 to the desired value (in seconds).
"agent": {
"metrics_collection_interval": 60,
"region": "us-west-1",
"logfile": "/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/logs/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.log",
"debug": false,
"run_as_user": "cwagent"
}
Not sure you can specify this agent parameter from terraform. You can check this part of the documentation for further details.
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Thanks for the answer! But it's super unclear how I can configure cloudwatch agent in case if I am using Elastic container service..
Can I configure Cloudwatch agent from Cloudwatch interface maybe somewhere?
Here you can find the documentation on how to deploying the CloudWatch agent and the X-Ray daemon on Amazon ECS.