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github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent

v1.3000030.2aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent ↗

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26 Aug 2026
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a new release about every 9 days
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notes for 48 of the last 60 stable releases
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no release was ever pulled
6 years old
378 releases · first in 2020

Release timeline

378 releases since 2020

202120222023202420252026

Releases

v1.300026.221 Aug 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Add expandconverter to config provider (@24592ba)
- Pin AWS SDK to v1.44.106 since the defaults for root creds changed in future versions (@048809e)
- Add Endpoint Override To EMF And Only Publish EMF Logs (@db03fb6)
- Revert "Add Retry To IMDS Client" (@a367c86)
Enhancements:
- Removed warn log message for empty fields in telegraph metrics (@fd1b308)
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v1.300026.121 Aug 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Macos script fix (@6792c77)
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v1.300026.021 Aug 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Remove windows event log plugin from adapter translation (@4c7abf4)
Enhancements:
- Remove telegraf agent start up (@3f60a57)
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v1.300025.1-0.20230907214621-217203d72d8c7 Sept 2023pre-release
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v1.300025.1-0.20230824205131-208e792b4d0024 Aug 2023pre-release
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v1.300025.025 Jul 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
New features:
- Add support for OpenTelemetry and AWS X-Ray traces. See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-opentelemetry-traces-x-ray/
- CloudWatch Agent is now compatible with both OpenTelemetry and Telegraf components
Enhancements:
- Adding blurb about usage data and opt-out (#776)
- Apply cd into terraform_dir logic consistently (#778)
- Increase terraform aws assume role duration to avoid expired token errors (#779)
- Add excluded_tests flag to Linux test workflow (#777)
- Echo Stress Test Info (#781)
- update schema and validation to support 3 year retention (#788)
- Workflow refactor and add onprem test jobs (#782)
- Add family flag to performance test (#789)
- Windows stress test setup (#797)
- Replace Telegraf agent with OpenTelemetry Collector (#796)
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v1.300001.024 Jan 2023
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v1.247360.1-0.20230710202747-5fe8f1a376d210 Jul 2023pre-release
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v1.247360.1-0.20230623231014-11403d95599a23 Jun 2023pre-release
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v1.247360.023 Jun 2023
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Enhancements:
- Support for voluntary collection of product experience metrics (#766) (#771)
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v1.247359.2-0.20230510212949-652c245fd84810 May 2023pre-release
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v1.247359.112 Apr 2023
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v1.247359.024 Mar 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements and bug fixes:
- Add log output when log files are deleted with auto_removal feature #636 (#659)
- Add config mode for ModeWithIRSA to support using default credential provider with RUN_WITH_IRSA environment variable as True (#682)
- Add config option to disable extraction of metrics from EMF logs for kubernetes (#723)
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v1.247358.030 Jan 2023
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements:
- Add log output when log files are deleted with auto_removal feature (#659)
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v1.247357.1-0.20230222223717-e8b9adaaddb622 Feb 2023pre-release
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v1.247357.1-0.20230131155329-ff777d5e1f5231 Jan 2023pre-release
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v1.247357.1-0.20221219210315-081cc0b8781d19 Dec 2022pre-release
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v1.247357.014 Dec 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Bug fixes:
- Update AWS SDK Go to fix mac build (#640)
- Fix control script starting CWA on Oracle Linux 9 by using systemctl (#645)
- Fix handling negative statefile offset (#646)
- Fix starting the agent with "auto" mode on an on premise host (#652)
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v1.247356.018 Nov 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements:
- Enhance Windows event log monitoring in preparation for Windows 11 support (#627)
- Remove Amazon Open Telemetry Collector that was bundled with CloudWatch Agent (#522)
- Integration tests moved to new repository (#622) (#625) (#630)
- Update default metric list scraped via Prometheus (#581)
Bug fixes:
- Fix corner case where "retention_in_days" was not actually getting set (#554)
- Fix ethtool name in input config (#585)
- Fix "amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl stop" to use systemd related commands (#542)
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v1.247355.1-0.20220901192532-8c0b7e1244ee1 Sept 2022pre-release
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v1.247355.08 Aug 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements:
- Support mode on premise
- Windows MSI installer silent exec implementation
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v1.247354.021 Jul 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements:
- Increase PutMetricData request size allowed in agent
- Fix Windows ctl issues on Windows 2012R2
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v1.247353.1-0.20220622041829-06bbe93199ed22 Jun 2022pre-release
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v1.247353.1-0.20220620122041-6451e8b913bc20 Jun 2022pre-release
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v1.247353.09 Jun 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements:
- Upgrade the Telegraf dependency to v1.23.0
- Drop support for mem_cached metrics on MacOS
- Fix Windows filepath escaping so paths with spaces work again (#490)
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v1.247352.028 May 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
New features:
- Support log group retention in CloudWatch Logs for 6,7,8,9 years (#469)
- Add scraping ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4 for ECS (#453)
- Allow account ID as placeholder value for log configuration (#400)
- Restart agent on RPM upgrade to fix SSM feature to auto update CWAgent (#387)
- Increase dimension's maximum to 30 for each metrics (#361)
- Creates a system user, "aoc", for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry collector without a shell, or updates an existing "aoc" user on the host so that the existing "aoc" user has no shell.
Bug fixes:
- Avoid Windows Server 2022 and PowerShell ISE exit on stderr (#473)
- Enhance config validation for bad regex in CWAgent (#459)
- Delete log's state file when tailer terminates due to an error (#457)
- Auto_removal sends all remain logs before deleting the files (#452)
- Include metric name in warning message when value is negative (#445)
- Add writing to CWAgent's log before a panic (#421)
- Move conflicting log retention check to translator (#418)
- Fix race condition when creating log groups and log streams (ResourceAlreadyExists) (#416)
- Retry on network failure for detecting EC2 (#397)
- ECS Service Discovery: Fix implicit network mode (#385)
- Fix Windows event log messages truncated on Windows Server 2022 (#379)
- Make CloudWatch Logs's pusher to wait for the final flush to complete before returning (#350)
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v1.247351.1-0.20220524234735-aa9b3a372c3f24 May 2022pre-release
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v1.247350.026 Jan 2022
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements and bug fixes:
- Add support for collect Nvidia GPU metrics on Linux OS with Nvidia_smi installed
- Improve message in amazon-cloudwatch-agent.log for Invalid Sequence Token case.
- Update To Otel Version 0.11.0.
- Improve windows config migration wizard not to include empty files/windows_events field.
- Improve runtime debugging with added environment variable CWAGENT_LOG_LEVEL.
- Improve config wizard message regarding collectd.
- Removed runc dependency
- Fix potential infinite retry when uploading logs.
- Fix windows event log plugin to use proper StateFile path.
- Fix performance for container insights with Kubernetes API server.
- Improve messages in amazon-cloudwatch-agent.log for dropped log lines in a monitored file.
- Add messages in amazon-cloudwatch.agent.log when retrying requests with AWS SDK due to throttling.
- Add support for implicit bridge network mode for ECS (#335)
- Add feature for agent-side log filtering (#327)
- Support log retention policy when writing or creating a log group (#250)
- Add user-agent value for Container Insights for requests (#342)
- Allow dropping metrics by name for aggregation (#336)
- Update systemd network target (#344)
- Fix for K8s naming rule for v1.21+ (#345)
- Export task ARN resource via Prometheus (#334)
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v1.247349.1-0.20211227184203-c3894b985db727 Dec 2021pre-release
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v1.247349.1-0.20211109181220-fa2558013aae9 Nov 2021pre-release
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v1.247349.1-0.20211014191930-eb63730e3be614 Oct 2021pre-release
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v1.247349.1-0.20210923195127-6828c5b08b5f23 Sept 2021pre-release
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v1.247349.017 Aug 2021
Release notes2 sources agree
Enhancements and bug fixes:
- Log throttling events handled by SDK
- CA bundle fix
- Update aws-otel-collector version to v0.11.0 (#571)
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v1.247348.1-0.20210817180636-f84ce167703517 Aug 2021pre-release
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