A Developer has a legacy application that is hosted on-premises. Other applications hosted on AWS depend on the on-premises application for proper functioning. In case of any application errors, the Developer wants to be able to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot all applications from one place. How can the Developer accomplish this?
A) Install an AWS SDK on the on-premises server to automatically send logs to CloudWatch.
B) Download the CloudWatch agent to the on-premises server. Configure the agent to use IAM user credentials with permissions for CloudWatch.
C) Upload log files from the on-premises server to Amazon S3 and have CloudWatch read the files.
D) Upload log files from the on-premises server to an Amazon EC2 instance and have the instance forward the logs to CloudWatch.

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The CloudWatch agent can be installed on on-premises servers to collect and send logs and metrics to CloudWatch. It requires IAM credentials with appropriate permissions to function.

A Developer Has a Legacy Application That Is Hosted On-Premises