having trouble installing awslogs agent

Question

I'm having issues trying to instal awslogs agent on my ec2 node. When I run this command:

sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region us-east-1

it seems to fail at step 2 like this:

Launching interactive setup of CloudWatch Logs agent ... 

Step 1 of 5: Installing pip ...DONE

Step 2 of 5: Downloading the latest CloudWatch Logs agent bits ... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./awslogs-agent-setup.py", line 1144, in <module>
    main()
  File "./awslogs-agent-setup.py", line 1140, in main
    setup.setup_artifacts()
  File "./awslogs-agent-setup.py", line 696, in setup_artifacts
    self.install_awslogs_cli()
  File "./awslogs-agent-setup.py", line 523, in install_awslogs_cli
    subprocess.call([AWSCLI_CMD, 'configure', 'set', 'plugins.cwlogs', 'cwlogs'], env=DEFAULT_ENV)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 524, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

what directory or file is it missing?

Answer 1

Amazon Linux 2

The awslogs agent is available now as a yum package https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/QuickStartEC2Instance.html

sudo yum install -y awslogs
sudo systemctl start awslogsd
sudo systemctl enable awslogsd.service

Make sure to change the AWS Region as mentionned in the doc