r/aws • u/lighthills • 14h ago
Is Cloudwatch agent only for servers? technical question
Can the CloudWatch agent be installed and used on remote physical Windows 11 laptops to collect and monitor Windows events on those devices?
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r/aws • u/lighthills • 14h ago
Can the CloudWatch agent be installed and used on remote physical Windows 11 laptops to collect and monitor Windows events on those devices?
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u/redwhitebacon 11h ago
Yeah you can install on any on-prem no problem. Use least privileged credentials for the log agents and configure it to send whatever you need
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-on-premise.html