Earlier this week I wrote a tutorial for setting up CloudWatch Logs Agent to run on Ubuntu 18.04 . In that entry I setup the CloudWatch Logs Agent to send the /var/log/syslog file to CloudWatch Logs. In this howto we will look at sending Tomcat logs to CloudWatch Logs.

Recently I wrote about how to setup the CloudWatch Logs Agent to run on Ubuntu 18.04 . In that entry I setup the agent to push the syslog log file, /var/log/syslog to CloudWatch Logs.

The AWS CloudWatch Logs Agent can be setup to push logs to the AWS CloudWatch Logs service from any server. In this howto, I'll show you how to set it up on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but you should be able to follow similar steps on Ubuntu 16.04 or other operating systems.