A company recently its server infrastructure to Amazon EC2 instances.

To track instance memory utilization and available disk space using Amazon CloudWatch, the SysOps administrator should install and configure the CloudWatch agent on all instances.

Install and Configure the CloudWatch Agent:

The CloudWatch agent can collect both system-level metrics (e.g., memory utilization, disk space) and application-level metrics and logs.

Install the CloudWatch agent on each EC2 instance and configure it to collect the necessary metrics.

Attach an IAM Role:

The EC2 instances need permissions to write logs and metrics to CloudWatch.

Attach an IAM role with the necessary permissions (e.g., CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy) to each EC2 instance.

Installing the CloudWatch Agent

Create IAM Roles to Use with the CloudWatch Agent