#!/bin/bash

# docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/QuickStartEC2Instance.html

REGION=$(curl -s 169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed s'/.$//')

if ! type python ; then

apt-get update
apt-get install -y python-pip

fi

# Install awslogs and the jq JSON parser curl -s s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cloudwatch/downloads/latest/awslogs-agent-setup.py -O

# in order to install awslogs non-interactively we need a filler configfile mkdir -p /etc/awslogs cat > /etc/awslogs/awslogs.conf <<- EOL

general

state_file = /var/awslogs/state/agent-state ## filler config file, will get replaced by configure.sh script EOL

python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py –region “$REGION” –non-interactive –configfile=/etc/awslogs/awslogs.conf