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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 AWS Systems Manager.
You can view SSM Agent logs on Linux instances in the following locations.
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/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.
