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AWS Documentation » AWS Systems Manager » User Guide » Setting Up AWS Systems Manager » Installing and Configuring SSM Agent » Installing and Configuring SSM Agent on Amazon EC2 Linux Instances » View SSM Agent Logs

View SSM Agent Logs

SSM Agent writes information about executions, scheduled actions, errors, and health statuses to log files on each instance. You can view log files by manually connecting to an instance, or you can automatically send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. For more information about sending logs to CloudWatch, see Monitoring Instances with AWS Systems Manager.

You can view SSM Agent logs on Linux instances in the following locations.

  • /var/log/amazon/ssm/amazon-ssm-agent.log

  • /var/log/amazon/ssm/errors.log

SSM Agent sterr and stdout files are written to the following directory: /var/lib/amazon/ssm.

For information about enabling SSM Agent debug logging, see Enable SSM Agent Debug Logging.

For more information about cihub/seelog configuration, see the Seelog Wiki on GitHub. For examples of cihub/seelog configurations, see the cihub/seelog examples repository on GitHub.