Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.
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Route 53 Health Checks and CloudWatch Event(s)
I have a Route 53 health check configured that is used to move a web site in and out of "maintenance mode" in the event that the checks fail. Works all very lovely and automated.
The Route 53 health checks have the option to configure alarms and…

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CloudWatch Alarm doesn't show Auto Scaling Groups
I'm trying to trigger an EC2 auto-scaling based on a CloudWatch alarm. I've created the auto scaling group in EC2 - same region and account - but when I try selecting it from the CloudWatch console, nothing shows up.
How do I get CloudWatch to…

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AWS EC2 Windows CloudWatch Agent to push memory and disk space metrics
I am trying to configure custom metrics for windows server in EC2. I need memory utilization and free disk space metrics from perfmon. So, the document says we can use AWS SSM and cloudwatch agent to push these metrics. Have enabled SSM and attached…

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Monitoring EKS Kubernetes LoadBalancer service Type
I have created few services in Kubernetes with type: LoadBalancer.
Platform: EKS.
Is there a way to get number of 4xx or 5xx errors from this LoadBalancer? I have tried the following:
Prometheus - Does not seem to be any metric collected for…
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Email notification when login attempt fails on RDS SQL Server DB
I need to get notified when there is an attempt to access our SQL database with the incorrect credentials. Is this something that I can do in AWS or do I need to do it in SQL Server?
I can manually look at the database log showing failed logins but…

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How to manage AWS CloudWatch per-instance alarms for instances created with Auto Scaling?
I set up a per-instance CPUUtilization alarm on CloudWatch, which appears to require an instance ID.
How do you add a per-instance alarm on instances that have been created with auto scaling? I would not know the instance ID or even that the…

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Creating an AWS Cloudwatch Alarm to monitor an AWS SQS Dead Letter Queue
I want create a CloudWatch Alarm that triggers every time a message is sent to an SQS Dead Letter Queue and then clears 5 minutes later, unless one or messages are sent in the interim in which case the alarm should remain
I think the easiest…
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How to remove a cloudwatch event rule using aws cli?
I am using terraform destroy to destroy some resource. However it failed at this step:
module.restore_db_from_snapshot.aws_cloudwatch_event_rule.event_rule:
aws_cloudwatch_event_rule.event_rule: AccessDeniedException: User:
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AWS CloudWatch Alarms
I am new to AWS. I have a very basic question that needs binary answer.
Situation:
I've been using API Gateway, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB for about 3
weeks now. I use cloudwatch logs but never created any alarms. I'm not
sure if any of these…

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AWS Trigger Automation from CloudWatch scheduled event
I have the following event source type "schedule" - 20 18 ? * SAT *.
The target is SSM Automation.
I have the following option ticked "Create a new role for this specific resource".
When I proceed to create rule section I get the following…

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Send Kube logs to Cloudwatch using fluentd
My cluster is on AWS and I've used kops to build by cluster.
I'm trying to send the kubernetes logs to AWS Cloud-watch using fluentd. I was able to stand-up the fluentd pods.
I am seeing the below error from the pod's logs. I have created…

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Hot to create a 'no http response' alarm in AWS CloudWatch?
I'm using Amazon CloudWatch in order to configure some alarms on my EC2 Intance.
My main concern is the system downtime. I configure a Status Check for the server. However it seems that the 'status check' only checks if the server is on and…

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AWS CloudWatch Events trigger SNS on STS role assuming for cross account
I have a cross-account architecture and I'm setting up a CloudWatch event for the STS role assuming into another account. I have CloudTrail enabled on the account, the logs from CloudTrail are stored in a separate accounts s3 bucket. The SNS feeds…

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Missing metrics in CloudWatch/Grafana
I'm setting up some dashboards in Grafana using data from AWS CloudWatch for an EB application.
It works fine for getting EnvironmentHealth, however for anything else I get "No data point".
I have tried selecting ApplicationRequestsTotal…

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cloudwatch missing metrics
I'm probably missing something extremely obvious but I only see 6 metrics on my cloudwatch -- 4 EC2 (all about CPU Credits) and 2 for S3 (bucket size and # of objects). It feels like there should be ... you know more than 6 metrics? I really only…

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