Issues

• CloudWatch Agent fails to start with "no such file or directory" for amazon-cloudwatch-agent.yaml when all tracing/metrics are disabled.

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2314 · Filter by author prashansa-wyvern opened on Sep 29, 2026

• Please update google.golang.org/grpc to 1.83.2 to address multiple CVEs

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2298 · Filter by author glaubitz opened on Sep 19, 2026

• Please update aws-sdk-go-v2 to at least 2026-03-23 to fix CVE-2026-89090

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2286 · Filter by author glaubitz opened on Sep 16, 2026

• Enable service.profilesSupport feature gate so profiles pipelines can start

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2273 · Filter by author royrajan13 opened on Sep 4, 2026

• Please update go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 to address CVE-2026-41178

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2256 · Filter by author glaubitz opened on Aug 26, 2026

• Windows: agent hangs at system shutdown when running as a Windows service (SIGTERM path not terminated)

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2214 · Filter by author ablankz opened on Jul 23, 2026

• [Windows] CW Agent silent metric loss after Windows Update - no error logged, no recovery, requires reboot of instance

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2199 · Filter by author rgoltz opened on Jul 14, 2026
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• v1.300070.0 leaks "dbus-daemon --session" procs with Prometheus/AppInsights SAP config, exhausts inotify ("too many open files") - fine on v1.300069.0

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2195 · Filter by author allanalvaro opened on Jul 10, 2026

• awsentity/service/telegraf processor auto-injected into statsd pipeline silently drops all custom metrics in agent versions 1.300031+

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2180 · Filter by author tthoma24 opened on Jun 27, 2026
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• nvidia_smi input reports 'Unknown schema version "v13"'

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  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2146 · Filter by author sleepdeprecation opened on Jun 4, 2026
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• Add official installation guide of CloudWatch Agent for Ubuntu

  Stale
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2137 · Filter by author Digant07 opened on May 30, 2026
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• Usage of the outdated aws-sdk-go v1.48.6

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2090 · Filter by author maslakov opened on Apr 17, 2026
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• Explain CloudWatch Agent RPM bXXXX release suffix vs -1.amzn20xx (AL2/AL2023) - CVE-2025-61731 / CVE-2025-68119

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  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2049 · Filter by author rgoltz opened on Mar 11, 2026
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• timestamp_format is ignored

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#2000 · Filter by author davidjmemmett opened on Feb 4, 2026
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• address already in use

  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1956 · Filter by author pete911 opened on Dec 11, 2025
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• Feature Request: "debug" flag should surface Prometheus scraper errors

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1948 · Filter by author andersnm opened on Nov 23, 2025
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• Add support for metric filtering (e.g., namepass / namedrop) for StatsD listener in CloudWatch Agent

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1933 · Filter by author kammireddy opened on Nov 3, 2025
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• CWAgent fails to resolve linux mount point device to EBS VolumeId on nitro instances

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  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1727 · Filter by author montaguethomas opened on Jun 15, 2025
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• read tags through metadata not iam-rights (describetags)

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1410 · Filter by author dayByte opened on Nov 4, 2024

• Allow for variable substitution in the logs configuration beyond the prebuilt variables

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1406 · Filter by author chubbard opened on Nov 1, 2024

• Disable collecting metrics/logs with annotation based on the cloudwatch agent.

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1389 · Filter by author tushar-012 opened on Oct 14, 2024
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• Supporting enabling omit_hostname for statsd but disabled for collectd,disk and mem

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1388 · Filter by author rpatidar opened on Oct 12, 2024
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• Append dimensions ssm managed instance id support

  enhancement
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1251 · Filter by author ghost opened on Jul 19, 2024

• Support Credentials from IAM Roles Anywhere

  questionstatus/backlog
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1241 · Filter by author garciap2g opened on Jul 9, 2024
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• Add KMS Key to Cloudwatch Log Group

  enhancementstatus/backlog
  aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1222 · Filter by author codezninja opened on Jun 21, 2024
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