amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl doesn't show version information of installed CloudWatch agent about amazon-cloudwatch-agent HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks for reporting this issue. It will be fixed in next release.

For the workaround, could you use /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent -version instead?

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@rgoltz the issue is caused by our script that prepares for the AL2 package which is part of the AL2 source repo, and not hosted in here at the moment, thus we are unable to link the commit.
The fix would be rolled out in next AL2 update in a few weeks I believe.
Thank you.

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@yimuniao - Thanks for the information and announcement that it getting fixed in the next version. Please mind that we are consuming from Repository "amzn2-core", so I'm assume it will be available there as well soon afterwards. You will link this issue along with the code-fix here in this github project?

Your workaround perfectly cover my current use-case. By running this command, I'm able to collect the local version-information via SSM again. I've just switched the code from parsing the JSON to working with the returned String. Thanks 👍

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I can see that our AL2 instances here within eu-central-1 got an update via yum update amazon-cloudwatch-agent. The agent moved forward from 1.247345.31-1 to 1.247345.35-1. Once the update is applied, the ctl command new returning the version information:

[user@amzn2]# /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -m ec2 -a status
{
  "status": "running",
  "starttime": "2020-10-03T07:04:51+0000",
  "version": "1.247345.35"
}

I'm going to close the issue, since it's fixed within Amazon Linux 2 default repo. Thanks! @yimuniao @haojhcwa

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