Failed to start CloudWatch agent on ubuntu22.04

Question

**Software package download**

wget https://amazoncloudwatch-agent.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/arm64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb

**amazon-cloudwatch-agent version**

`dpkg: version 1.300032.2b361-1 of amazon-cloudwatch-agent already installed, skipping`

**Run the installation command**

`sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m onPremise -s -c file:/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.json`

` processing amazon-cloudwatch-agent 
2024/01/08 09:45:20 E! Failed to open Common Config: open /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/common-config.toml: no such file or directory``

No errors occurred while installing the software. There is only an empty directory amazon-cloudwatch-agent.d in the etc directory. After manually editing the configuration file amazon-cloudwatch-agent.json and starting the agent, an error is reported but there is no "/opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/common-config.toml" ” Is it a problem with this version?

Answer

You need a valid configuration file before it will start. Please follow one of the 2 links in this page https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/create-cloudwatch-agent-configuration-file.html

It may be easier for you initally to use the wizard by running sudo amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard

It may be easier for you initally to use the wizard by running `sudo amazon-cloudwatch-agent-config-wizard`

Failed to start CloudWatch agent on ubuntu22.04

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