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updating cloudwatch agent role to use collectd role #2629

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions roles/debian/aws_cloudwatch_agent/defaults/main.yml
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Expand Up @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ aws_cloudwatch_agent:
# Group prefix. Useful for grouping by environments.
# Eg. instead of "syslog", you can have "dev syslog", "prod syslog", etc.
log_group_prefix: ""
# Enable collectd integration
collectd:
enabled: false
# You'd normally use IAM policies, but that allows
# non-AWS servers to log in cloudwatch too.
use_credentials: false
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions roles/debian/aws_cloudwatch_agent/templates/config.json.j2
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],
"metrics_collection_interval": 60
}
{%- if aws_cloudwatch_agent.collectd is defined and aws_cloudwatch_agent.collectd.enabled %}
,"collectd": {
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To avoid bad JSON this might need to be this:

				"metrics_collection_interval": 60
            }{%- if aws_cloudwatch_agent.collectd is defined and aws_cloudwatch_agent.collectd.enabled %},
			"collectd": {

"metrics_aggregation_interval": 60
}
{%- endif %}
}
}
}
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions roles/debian/collectd/handlers/main.yml
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---
- name: Restart collectd
ansible.builtin.service:
name: collectd
state: restarted
7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions roles/debian/collectd/tasks/main.yml
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force: true
when:
- collectd_configdir.stat.exists
notify: Restart collectd

- name: Ensure collectd service is enabled and started.
ansible.builtin.service:
name: collectd
state: started
enabled: true
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