aws / aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
Enable service.profilesSupport feature gate so profiles pipelines can start
- Dominant language
- Go
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- 550
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Configuring a profiles pipeline makes the agent fail to start:
pipeline "profiles": profiling signal support is at alpha level, gated under the "service.profilesSupport" feature gate
Profiles are gated behind `service.profilesSupport`, which is alpha and off by
default in the collector the agent embeds. The agent builds the collector's
arguments itself and only passes `--config=`, so there is no supported way for an
operator to enable the gate. Profiles are unreachable from the agent today.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Have the agent enable `service.profilesSupport` by default when it starts the
collector, so profiles pipelines work without operators needing to know the gate
exists.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Exposing a general `--feature-gates` passthrough in the agent config, or an
environment-variable opt-in. Both leave profiles off by default and require
operators to know which gate to name.
**Additional context**
I have a change ready and would like to submit a PR for this.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating where the agent constructs the embedded collector's startup arguments and currently passes only --config=. Trace the profiles pipeline startup path and add coverage for the feature-gate behavior; done means a profiles pipeline starts without the reported service.profilesSupport error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100