Start the CloudWatch Logs agent - Amazon CloudWatch Logs
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Start the CloudWatch Logs agent

If the CloudWatch Logs agent on your EC2 instance did not start automatically after installation, or if you stopped the agent, you can use the following procedure to start the agent.

To start the agent

  1. Connect to your EC2 instance. For more information, see Connect to Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

    For more information about connection issues, see Troubleshooting Connecting to Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

  2. At a command prompt, type the following command:

    sudo service awslogs start

    If you are running Amazon Linux 2, type the following command:

    sudo service awslogsd start