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CloudWatch agent gains native journald log collection on Linux

2026-08-28 21:17 UTC · AWS What's New · read the source ↗ #cloudwatch#observability#journald
  • Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams running Amazon Linux 2023 or other systemd-only distros no longer need disk-export workarounds to ship structured journal logs to CloudWatch. Update the CloudWatch agent to the latest version and add a journald config block to consolidate logging for those instances this quarter.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Skip
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