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github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent

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07 Oct 2026
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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
427 releases · first in 2020

Release timeline

427 releases since 2020

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Releases

v1.247353.1-0.20220620122041-6451e8b913bc20 Jun 2022pre-release
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v1.247353.09 Jun 20222 sources agree
Upgrade the Telegraf dependency to v1.23.0
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 20222 sources agree
Support log group retention in CloudWatch Logs for 6,7,8,9 years

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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v1.247351.1-0.20220509193434-55dc261fc8679 May 2022pre-release

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v1.247351.1-0.20220506134150-be2a6bd5ee176 May 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220331172232-0a29e64deb9b31 Mar 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220308193427-d1debb9966348 Mar 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220307145012-639e513351ea7 Mar 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220303192027-378acf41d06e3 Mar 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220302000625-40bb174c0e232 Mar 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220228204602-c2219fa0ac2128 Feb 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220224153655-5c789930dd1d24 Feb 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.1-0.20220207182314-85b920ff21fe7 Feb 2022pre-release

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v1.247350.026 Jan 20222 sources agree

Add support for collect Nvidia GPU metrics on Linux OS with Nvidia_smi installed

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 20212 sources agree

Log throttling events handled by SDK

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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v1.247348.1-0.20210705181653-5715749617aa5 Jul 2021pre-release

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v1.247348.1-0.20210619001223-ae7730ceeea119 Jun 2021pre-release

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v1.247348.1-0.20210528224311-5be59ed0972528 May 2021pre-release

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v1.247348.028 May 20212 sources agree

Allow ignoring pods metrics with a specific annotation to remove the metrics not needed.

Enhancements and bug fixes:

Allow ignoring pods metrics with a specific annotation to remove the metrics not needed.(#163)
Fix the unnecessary logging entries (#210)
Update aws-otel-collector version to v0.10.0 (#216)

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v1.247347.7-0.20210505174231-c7a6db50292d5 May 2021pre-release

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v1.247347.7-0.20210415183814-5a42771d059415 Apr 2021pre-release

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v1.247347.624 Mar 20212 sources agree

Fix prometheus metric type error when relabel job, instance and __name__

Bug fixes:

Fix prometheus metric type error when relabel job, instance and name
Fix pod detection for k8s containerd runtime, though container filesystem metric is not supported by cadvisor for containerd.

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v1.247347.523 Feb 20212 sources agree

Expand the translator by exposing an API to override schema

New Features and Enhancements:

Expand the translator by exposing an API to override schema
Allow translator plugins to specify and override metricPath
Ignore +/-Inf values in prometheus metrics

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v1.247347.416 Feb 20212 sources agree

Fix pod metrics missing when using docker systemd cgroup driver on EKS

Bug fixes:

Fix pod metrics missing when using docker systemd cgroup driver on EKS

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v1.247347.313 Jan 20212 sources agree

New Features and Enhancements: * add macos into the workflow ========================================================================

New Features and Enhancements:

add macos into the workflow

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v1.247347.27 Jan 2021

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v1.247347.14 Jan 20212 sources agree

ECS service endpoint based discovery for Prometheus

New Features and Enhancements:

macOS (x86) support
ECS service endpoint based discovery for Prometheus

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v1.247347.023 Dec 20202 sources agree

Composite Agent (CloudWatch Agent + OTel Collector) for EC2

New Features and Enhancements:

Composite Agent (CloudWatch Agent + OTel Collector) for EC2
Support append-config for procstat
Fix incorrect systemd detection
Enable flag to force ec2 mode
Sync manifest files for container insights
Disable cgo for test target
Add formatted date as a variable
Add check secrets

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v1.247346.226 Nov 2020

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v1.247346.14 Nov 20202 sources agree

Remove md5 from jitter calculation

New Features and Enhancements:

Remove md5 from jitter calculation
Make allowed_pending_messages to be configurable for statsd
Add Prometheus EMF metrics unit support

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v1.247346.021 Oct 20202 sources agree

Use name under /dev/mapper as device for LVM volumes for disk plugin

Features:

Add Prometheus support

Bug fixes:

Use name under /dev/mapper as device for LVM volumes for disk plugin

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v1.247345.3625 Sept 20202 sources agree

Use correct cgroup path for task with new ARN format

Bug fixes:

Use correct cgroup path for task with new ARN format

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v1.247345.3524 Sept 20202 sources agree

Fix config translator unable to work with diskio plugin with complex measurement

Bug fixes:

Fix config translator unable to work with diskio plugin with complex measurement

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v1.247345.3419 Sept 20202 sources agree

Fix ignore empty value tags for cloudwatch dimension

Bug fixes:

Fix ignore empty value tags for cloudwatch dimension
Fix logs loop does not break out loop when exit
Fix win_perf_counter plugin test case int to string conversion

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v1.247345.3315 Sept 20202 sources agree

Create log stream, group in order

New Features and Enhancements:

Add license files to top level
Create log stream, group in order
Remove Amazon Software License

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v1.247345.3215 Sept 2020

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v1.247345.3110 Sept 2020

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v1.247345.302 Sept 20202 sources agree

Upgrade procstat to 2.20.5 preventing memory leak on windows 2016

New Features and Enhancements:

Upgrade procstat to 2.20.5 preventing memory leak on windows 2016
Refactor cloudwatchlogs pusher flush timer management
Create dedicated channel for non-blocking events cloudwathlogs pusher

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