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github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent

v1.3000030.2aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent ↗

Last release today
26 Aug 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 9 days
Most releases are documented
notes for 48 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
6 years old
378 releases · first in 2020

Release timeline

378 releases since 2020

202120222023202420252026

Releases

v1.300042.1-0.20240711180043-c89be7d5208811 Jul 2024pre-release
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v1.300042.011 Jul 2024
Release notes
Enhancements:
- [Application Signals] Optimize memory utilization on Kubernetes
- [Application Signals] Add remote db user attribute to traces and logs
- [Metrics] Support append_dimension for ethtool
Bug Fixes:
- [Metrics/Plugin] Reduce logging for known non-convertible metric units
- [Metrics/Plugin] Fix tomcat.sessions metric to aggregate for all Tomcat applications
- [Metrics/Plugin] Update default collection interval to 60 seconds
- [ApplicationSignals] Add log group names as attribute (#1220)
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v1.300041.07 Jun 2024
Release notes
Features:
- Support JMX metric collection for JVM, Tomcat, and Kafka on EC2
Enhancements:
- [ContainerInsights] Add NVIDIA GPU count metrics
- [Application Signals] Enable detailed logging for metrics/traces when debug is enabled
Bug fixes:
- [Logs/Windows Event] Fix load state offset parsing to support unsigned int
- [ContainerInsights] Prevent non-active workload GPU pod metrics from being emitted
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v1.300040.1-0.20240610143032-da942bee931310 Jun 2024pre-release
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v1.300040.021 May 2024
Release notes
Enhancements:
- [Application Signals] Export EMF logs to /aws/application-signals/data
- [Application Signals] Rename metric namespace to Application Signals
- [Application Signals] Change metric schema from HostedIn to Environment
- Trim AWS prefix for spans in X-Ray exporter
Bug fixes:
- Fix panic when using amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a cond-restart
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v1.300039.1-0.20240521185839-eca8174758d921 May 2024pre-release
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v1.300039.03 May 2024
Release notes
Features:
- [Metrics] Append Dimension Volume Id For Metrics
Enhancements:
- Upgrade OTEL Contrib To v0.98.0
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v1.300037.126 Apr 2024
Release notes
Bug fixes:
- Fix nil referencing issue while decorating container insights metrics
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v1.300037.1-0.20240426005652-82aeb98995cf26 Apr 2024pre-release
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v1.300037.011 Apr 2024
Release notes
Features:
- [ContainerInsights] Add Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) observability with Kubernetes
Enhancements:
- Retain CloudWatch Log Group when translating X-Ray segments
Bug fixes:
- Clean up log pusher state file on startup
- Drop container/pod level Nvidia GPU metrics when there is no active workload
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v1.300036.1-0.20240412005239-bcfccf8242ca12 Apr 2024pre-release
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v1.300036.05 Apr 2024
Release notes
Features:
- [ContainerInsights] Add AWS Trainium & Inferentia observability with Kubernetes
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v1.300035.011 Mar 2024
Release notes
Features:
- [ContainerInsights] Add Container Insights for Windows in kubernetes.
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v1.300034.115 Mar 2024
Release notes
Bug fixes:
- [AppSignals] Explicitly set the default GC interval for metrics limiter
Enhancements:
- [ContainerInsights] Add InstanceType attribute to GPU metrics
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v1.300034.1-0.20240315173834-fd00839da86815 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.300034.1-0.20240311185653-c7e57139209b11 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.300034.1-0.20240307215427-9ac52c98841d7 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.300034.1-0.20240306205958-79d7271f22e36 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.300034.01 Mar 2024
Release notes
Features:
- [ContainerInsights] Add NVIDIA GPU observability with Kubernetes
Enhancements:
- [AppSignals] Improve Kubernetes support
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v1.300033.031 Jan 2024
Release notes
Enchancements:
- [AppSignals] Log correlation
- [AppSignals] New Metric Rollup
- [AppSignals] Add metrics cardinality control
- [AppSignals] Add application log group info
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v1.300032.4-0.20240302004611-2ad5e3a44ab02 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240221210052-bbea2529130021 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240220215553-e91fde5365d820 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240201183426-b4f3eaa0c6771 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240201172430-ada3364ee8371 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240131224901-f7e093da0dcc31 Jan 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240131185520-7c0e6472670f31 Jan 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20240123202057-50775938eaae23 Jan 2024pre-release
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v1.300032.4-0.20231221191224-2d95ec6bce7f21 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.300032.321 Dec 2023
Release notes
Enhancements:
- Configure appsignals processor on EKS with cluster name
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v1.300032.28 Dec 2023
Release notes
Bug fixes:
- Fix CW Log Group creation in regions where LogGroupClass parameter is unsupported
- Fix CA bundle configuration for X-Ray exporter and region configuration for CW Logs exporter
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v1.300032.17 Dec 2023
Release notes
Bug fixes:
- Have YAML use context log path from TOML rules
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v1.300032.1-0.20231208173059-d76ee1452af08 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.300032.1-0.20231207211412-930c07e575ed7 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.300032.1-0.20231207194013-b5b7a650a11e7 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.300032.1-0.20231207193728-826a43e53eae7 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.300032.029 Nov 2023
Release notes
New Features:
- Support CloudWatch Logs log group classes
Enhancements:
- Use cwagent as the default user to run the agent with configuration wizard
- Reduce CPU spikes when using procstat on Windows by grabbing only individual processes specified
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v1.300031.2-0.20231109234437-1ce2478925b19 Nov 2023pre-release
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v1.300031.19 Nov 2023
Release notes
Bug fixes:
- Fix logger not rotating log file after file size reaches 100MB
- Fix enhanced container insights not publishing metrics for pods in pending status
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v1.300031.1-0.20231107214652-996d1918c02a7 Nov 2023pre-release
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v1.300031.07 Nov 2023
Release notes
Enhancements:
- Allow empty measurement field in the agent configuration for backward-compatibility
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v1.300030.3-0.20231102204145-38a4016bddf82 Nov 2023pre-release
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v1.300030.22 Nov 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Fix enhanced container insights publishing 0 for cpu/memory over metrics when limit/resource not set
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v1.300030.130 Oct 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Add units to StatusRunning and StatusContainerTerminatedReasonOOMKilled metrics
Enhancements:
- Add agenthealth extension with user agent handler
- Enable enhanced container insights flag in EMF exporter
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v1.300030.1-0.20231030193356-d92f8fc3438130 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300030.1-0.20231024201904-f3389998889b24 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300030.023 Oct 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Fix EMF log corruption caused by highly concurrent messages sent to the agent
- CA Bundle fix for AWS Secret regions
- Filter out terminated pods when calculating container insights node request metrics to match kubectl implementation
- Fix auto_removal to not block on the file being removed
Enhancements:
- Support both zero padded and non-padded month/day when using %m/%d for the logfile timestamp_format
- Use default path when -otelconfig option not given
- Restrict pprof-addr to localhost
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v1.300029.1-0.20231006153450-62d92bc0d6e36 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300029.029 Sept 2023
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v1.300028.44 Oct 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Use GZIP 6 RPM Compression To Fix Install On AL2 Without Kernel Patch
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v1.300028.33 Oct 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Use fmt.Printf Instead Of log.Printf On Start Up Because Of A Bug With Windows User Data Causing Agent Not To Start
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v1.300028.3-0.20231004205746-70c071bb90934 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300028.3-0.20231004173438-11de82c7fb864 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300028.3-0.20231003205435-ed88284b1a513 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300028.3-0.20231002223553-66f1a8cdb5d82 Oct 2023pre-release
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v1.300028.229 Sept 2023
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v1.300028.115 Sept 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Fix windows event logs to start only once
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v1.300028.1-0.20230915212916-6b2589156bc915 Sept 2023pre-release
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v1.300028.07 Sept 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Fix file pattern matching to support glob wildcard characters (!{})
- Use LogStreamName instead of ServiceName in token replacement for Prometheus
- Add fallback shared config files for credential ordering to maintain previous AWS SDK behavior
- Drop unsupported NaN, Inf, and out of range values
Enhancements:
- Try using IMDSv2 only first before using client with fallback
- Add support for configurable IMDS retries in the common-config.toml
- Add support for traces in agent configuration wizard
- Remove misleading metric filter warning
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v1.300026.321 Aug 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Retain logic to determine log stream for EMF pipeline (@4f7705a)
- Fix rename in metrics decorator translator (@ad5861a)
- Update config translation to respect common config profile and creds file (@e2ef915)
- Remove plugin key allowlist for metric decorator (@47a5e47)
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