Kinesis Agent Windows

# Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows

The **Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows** is a configurable and extensible agent. It runs on Windows systems, either on-premises or in the AWS Cloud. Kinesis Agent efficiently and reliably gathers, parses, transforms, and streams logs, events, and metrics to various AWS services, including [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams][kinesis-stream], [Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose][kinesis-firehose], [Amazon CloudWatch][cloudwatch], and [Amazon CloudWatch Logs][cloudwatch-logs].

• [Amazon Kinesis details][kinesis]
• [Kinesis Agent for Windows User Guide][kinesis-agent-windows-user-guide]
• [Reporting Issues][kinesis-agent-windows-issues]

Features

• Monitors log files, Windows Event Logs, Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), Windows Performance Counters and sends data records to AWS services
• Parses generic logs formats as well as special log formats commonly found in Windows environments, Domain Controllers, Internet Information (IIS)/W3SVC, Exchange family of logs, SharePoint, DHCP, Radius, and SQL Server
• Performs data extraction, filtering, decoration, and formats data as structure logs.
• Handles different kinds of log rotation approaches and accessing log files even when those logs files are locked by log writers
• Provides data about the health of the agent itself which confirms the accuracy and completeness of the data collected and streamed

Getting started

1. Minimum requirements — To start the Amazon Kinesis Agent for Windows, you need Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.
2. Installing, configurating and starting Kinesis Agent for Windows — For more information, see [Kinesis Agent for Windows User Guide][kinesis-agent-windows-user-guide].

Installing Amazon Kinesis Agent for Windows

From an elevated PowerShell command prompt window, execute the following command:

Invoke-Expression ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/kinesis-agent-windows/downloads/