Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.
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How to show instance names in CloudWatch graph labels?
We have a couple of machines in AWS EC2 and are running the Amazon CloudWatch Agent on them to collect metrics. Instead of the default ImageId, InstanceId, InstanceType triplet, the agent is configured to aggregate by InstanceId only:
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How can I count EC2 instances over time in AWS?
I want to know the number of EC2 instances I have running over time. I am able to view this data from the following menu:
ec2 dashboard
Auto Scaling Groups
select my group from the table of groups
select monitoring tab
select graph of Total…

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AWS Route53 - Getting simple metrics such as "number of requests in the last 24hrs"
My goal is to get a simple "# of requests per day" value against a Route 53 hosted zone.
I see no straightforward way to do this.
I have created the query logging as explained here:…

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CodeBuild behind VPC can't access CloudWatch endpoint
I have a CodeBuild project that is setup to use a VPC so it can access RDS. I setup a "VPC Endpoint" for com.amazonaws.us-east-1.s3 so CodeBuild can access CodePipeline output artifacts.
This is working fine, but now nothing is output in the "Build…

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Cloudwatch logs - audit user access
I have a list of users in .passwd and access_log being uploaded to Cloudwatch.
I need to make weekly report who from this list did access to server.
Is there any way to automate this rather than checking logs manually for each user? There are…

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Cloudwatch event for changes in ALB target groups
I have a lambda function that copies the targets (IP addresses in this case) from one target group to another (deleting any in the second target group that don't appear in the first). This gives us 2 target groups that always match each other.
The…

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Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk EBS Logs To Cloudwatch (Multi Docker Env)
I would like to view all my logs in cloudwatch.
I currently have a multi-docker Elastic beanstalk environment.
I have selected for the logs to push to cloudwatch by going to
Elastic Beanstalk > App > Env > Configuration > Software Configuration >…

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Deploying CloudWatch Agent Config to Elastic Beanstalk
I have two environments (production, staging) within an Elastic Beanstalk environment and wanted to set up CloudWatch Agent logging for the EC2 instances being used with these environments. When reading the EB Cloudwatch logs how to, the process…

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AWS EC2 Instance Metadata service fails to respond
Environment, system details, and tools:
AWS EC2
EC2 Instance Metadata service (i.e. http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/)
Cloudwatch
wget
bash
Ubuntu 14.04
Has anyone ever seen this? We have a cron job that pushes Cloudwatch metrics from…

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Cloudformation ELB Cloudwatch Alarms InsufficientData
I have setup a bunch of cloudwatch alarms for my service using cloudformation. All my alarms work except for the ELB alarms. They always just show insufficient data. I can go into the console and setup the alarms manually but I want to be able to…

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How to launch EC2 instance with preconfigured AWS Alarm
I wan't to kill a specific instance when some of it's hardware consumption metrics reaches a certain level. If i create an alarm for the scaling group (setting maximum cpu consumption threshhold to >=50 for example) it will kill the oldest instance…

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Cloudwatch alarms strange behavior
We're implementing some new alarms recently that needs to monitor CPU for 1 min period.
Alarms are acting in very strange way. They show Good status for a min and for the min after they show Insuffucient data sign
Reason: Insufficient Data: 1…

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AWS CloudWatch Dashboard for Large Screen Display with Alerting
Does anyone know of a good solution that provides a monitoring and alerting Dashboard for Amazon Web Servics (AWS) CloudWatch service which can used on large screen displays?
The system should use the CloudWatch API, not need an agent to be…

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Auto scaling AWS EC2 instances based on memory utilization
I am setting up auto scaling based on memory consumed by the particular instance. I went through the link posted at awsforums. I was able to set my metrics and using the bash script given and with the same variables.
In figuring out how to set auto…

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archive and visualize amazon ec2 cloudwatch metrics
How do you backup your ec2 cloudwatch metrics? How do you visualize different measurements with different scales at once, like cpu% and i/o? How do you combine your application server metrics (like 'viewed products per hour') with cloudwatch metrics…

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