How To Install awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install awslogs.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. awslogs.noarch is Scripts for CloudWatch Logs Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `awslogs.noarch`

Scripts to run Amazon CloudWatch Logs as a daemon.

We can use yum to install awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install awslogs.noarch.

Install awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install awslogs.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install awslogs.noarch

How To Uninstall awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the awslogs.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove awslogs.noarch

awslogs.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/awslogs
/etc/awslogs/awscli.conf
/etc/awslogs/awslogs.conf
/etc/awslogs/config
/etc/awslogs/proxy.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/awslogs
/usr/lib/systemd/system/awslogsd.service
/usr/sbin/awslogsd
/var/lib/awslogs

References

awslogs.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install awslogs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.