I have an EC2(ubuntu 18.04) with CloudWatch Agent (CWAgent) and collectd installed.</p

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aws commented on September 22, 2024

Unable to send metrics from collectd to CloudWatch Agent

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haojhcwa commented on September 22, 2024

2 thoughts, did you configure encryption for your collectd? See doc here
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Agent-custom-metrics-collectd.html

2nd thing you can try is enable debugging for the agent to see if there are more helpful info:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/troubleshooting-CloudWatch-Agent.html#CloudWatch-Agent-troubleshooting-loginfo

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mong0520 commented on September 22, 2024

2 thoughts, did you configure encryption for your collectd? See doc here
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Agent-custom-metrics-collectd.html

2nd thing you can try is enable debugging for the agent to see if there are more helpful info:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/troubleshooting-CloudWatch-Agent.html#CloudWatch-Agent-troubleshooting-loginfo

It was mismatched encryption setting, thank you @haojhcwa, and I am going co close this issue.

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amandahla commented on September 22, 2024

@mong0520 Please, can you share how did you solved this? I'm trying this configuration but without success.

collectd.conf

FQDNLookup true
Interval 60
Timeout         5
LoadPlugin logfile
LoadPlugin syslog
<Plugin logfile>
        LogLevel "info"
        File "/var/log/collectd.log"
        Timestamp true
        PrintSeverity false
</Plugin>
<Plugin syslog>
        LogLevel info
</Plugin>
LoadPlugin curl
LoadPlugin network
<Plugin curl>
    <Page "healthz">
        URL "http://localhost/healthz";
        MeasureResponseCode true
    </Page>
</Plugin>
<Plugin network>
        <Server "127.0.0.1" "25826">
                SecurityLevel "None"
        </Server>
</Plugin>

config.json

{
  "agent": {
    "region": "us-east-2",
    "run_as_user": "root",
    "debug": true

  },
  "metrics":{
          "namespace": "collectd-test",
          "metrics_collected":{
                  "collectd":{
                          "metrics_aggregation_interval": 60,
                          "collectd_security_level": "none"
                  }
          }
  },
    "force_flush_interval": 5
}

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