Questions tagged [amazon-cloudwatch]

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.

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Are the units incorrect for Storage Read / Write graphs in AWS ECS Container Insights?

In AWS Console > CloudWatch > Container Insights > Performance monitoring > ECS Tasks, the graphs for both Storage Read and Storage Write have units shown as Bytes/Second like this: Storage Read Bytes/Second However in both cases the graphs appear…
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CloudWatch Agent procstat - get status about all nodejs processes separately

I'm trying to get process level monitoring going for an EC2 instance with a bunch of small nodejs services on it. Right now I am using this configuration: { "metrics": { "metrics_collected": { "procstat" : [ …
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How to monitor the disk space usage of an AWS elasticache redis cluster?

This is the reason behind this question: I am using a redis cluster on AWS Elasticcache as a datastore. I do not enable eviction because I need to keep the data alive inside the redis cluster for as long as the users are actively using them. It is a…
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AWS Cloudwatch Pricing, what exactly is a metric and how many data points can you have

Disclaimer: I intended to ask this on the AWS Developer forum, but since I just created a forum account, I "might not be able to post messages for a few hours" and I'll surely be asleep by then and forget I was going to ask this tomorrow.... I've…
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AWS CloudWatch alarm not populating data points - Insufficient state always

I am configuring CloudWatch alarm from the custom metric. Custom metric for disk space is configured, and I can see that every 5 minutes I am able to see the data. But when I set the alarm, the data points are not shown. For example: Image below is…
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How to measure GB-seconds for AWS EC2

We are researching on the possibilities of moving our app from EC2 based implementation to AWS lambda. We are trying to project how much money we will be saving if we do so. The lambda pricing says it gives 400000 GB-seconds free per month and a…
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In CloudWatch dashboard, how to include metric search in formula/sum

I'm trying to set up a CloudWatch dashboard to monitor total S3 storage usage. I can add each BucketSizeBytes metric, and then use an equation SUM(METRICS()), and see the total, but if I use a SEARCH() to include all the…
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AWS RDS DB Connections 90+

I have a single db.m5.large RDS instance running in my aws setup. When I check for max connection from mysql console, with bellow query. mysql> show variables like 'max_connections'; …
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AWS CloudWatch Log Being Hammered with 'multilineStarter is missing in logevent'

I have installed AWS CloudWatch Agent on one of my instances (windows) and I get in the agent log file this message: 2019-04-14T16:10:53Z W! multilineStarter is missing in logevent. multilineStarter: true And it is HAMMERING the log file - I get…
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AWS CloudWatch alerts for disk space metric broken after reboot

I have noticed that when creating an alarm for disk usage monitoring of an ebs volume mounted using nvme on the newer ec2 instance types that the "device" is sent as a metric dimension. The problem is the the nvme device name can change when the ec2…
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Audit logs for RDS MySQL not appearing in CloudWatch

I've been trying to get a MySQL instance on Amazon's RDS to send logs to CloudWatch: in particular, both error logs and audit logs. Error logs work fine, they're appearing in CloudWatch, no issues at all. For audit logs, I know I need to have the…
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How to use Input Transformer for CloudWatch Rule target SSM Run Command - AWS-RunShellScript

I am attempting to execute a script on one of our instances whenever a container's state changes. I am creating a target SSM Run Command with the document being AWS-RunShellScript (Linux) I would have thought I could somehow pass data from the…
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syslog direct to AWS cloudwatch?

Is there a way to push POSIX syslog records directly to AWS cloudwatch? I know Cloudwatch can be rigged to look at the /var/log/messages files and similar. But is there a way -- a sylog.conf(5) setting, or a rfc5424 compatible listener, or some such…
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Service Availability monitoring on AWS

Is it possible to display Service Availability (%) for metric i have on AWS, I am able to get graphs, but can't get availability for period selected.
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access to custom cloudwatch metrics using lambda+boto3?

I have a custom metrics, and I can get data from bash: aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics --namespace System/Detail/Linux \ --metric-name LoadAverage1Min --start-time 2017-01-04T00:00:00 \ --end-time 2017-01-04T02:00:00 --period 60 --statistics…
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