Cannot see events in AWS CodeDeploy

Question

My CodeDeploy deployment is failing. Usually I'm able to see the event list on each instances, and see which ones failed/passed. This no longer works, and the event list is empty. What could be causing this?

Answer 1

As Jonathan Turpie mentions, you should probably troubleshoot if the instance is taking care of your deployment.

You could first try to troubleshoot via AWS CLI, aws deploy get-deployment --deployment-id d-USUAELQEX. It might return error codes that will help you to tweak your setting and succeed with your deployment. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/deploy/get-deployment.html

If your EC2 instance actually handles the deployment. Edit the /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeployagent.yml and set :verbose: to true on your EC2 instance.

Try to deploy again and open codedeploy-agent.log at /var/log/aws/codedeploy-agent and see if you are able to see anything there. Read more here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/host-cleanup.html

Answer 2

You may not be able to see events if the deployment didn't get far enough. For example, there was a problem getting the list of instances due to IAM configuration or your instance isn't responding to commands.