Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.
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Is it possible to have a Cloudwatch alarm of the 'free memory' of a ElastiCache Redis cluster?
I'm looking to set up a cloudwatch alarm on a Redis cluster in ElastiCache rather than each individual node.
Is this possible in cloudwatch? so far I've only found ways to set alarms on each individual node, however that isn't very scalable if in…

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Grafana with cloudwatch at lightsail is possible?
I have an instance on amazon lightsail and I setup grafana with cloudwatch datasource. When I list the regions, I see a few options but i don't see us-east-b (Ohio) where my instance is running.
Does cloudwatch only work with EC2?
Anybody got to use…

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How do I send logs from a VPC without an internet gateway/VPC endpoint to CloudWatch Logs?
I have a only one VPC which has an internet gateway. We'll call it the main VPC.
The other VPCs are connected to the main VPC through a VPC peering connection. There is no public access to those VPCs.
I'm not in a region where it is possible to…

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What are the best practices to configure CloudWatch alarms for a Tomcat webapp?
I have a Tomcat webapp deployed on Elastic Beanstalk for which I want to configure CloudWatch alarms, especially for when the web server is down. The Tomcat container uses Google OAuth2 for authentication and a custom MongoDB Realm for…

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Track the number of EC2 instances created from an AMI in Cloudwatch
Is there a way to display a Cloudwatch metric showing the number of running EC2 instances built from a given AMI at a given time. I'm trying to track the size of a system that scales up and down over the course of the day, and I'd like to add a…

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How do I combine multiple SQS metrics with Lambda?
I have SQS monitoring for some services we have. We have two metrics that I'm looking to combine. "Receives" and "Empty Receives".
Is it possible to use something like amazon lambda to create an aggregate metric of those two queues? If so, what…

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How to configure Cloudwatch events to trigger on IAM API calls?
So I'm having trouble setting up Cloudwatch events to trigger a Lambda function. In the current scenario I want to trigger a Lambda when anyone/thing changes anything in IAM.
Currently I have a global Cloudtrail in N. Virginia which is logging all…

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cloudwatch log to kinesis and s3
I want to use my cloudwatch logs which are basically website access logs. Need to use these cloudwatch logs for data analytics with kinesis stream since firehose and analytics service is not available in that region. Is there any way to get this…

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All requests go into ELB surge queue
A problem: It seems like every single request to our application ends up in ELB surge queue
Example of a surge queue chart:
We have a classic ELB on AWS with multiple EC2 boxes behind it. ELB listeners setup in a next way
LB Protocol LB Port …

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Monitoring Memory usage of EC2 Windows Server- There is no "CloudWatch log" option in EC2Config anymore
I'm gonna monitor Memory usage of an EC2 windows server R2 2012. I have installed the latest version of EC2Config which is 4.9.2061 by downloading it from here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/UsingConfig_Install.html
I have…

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What do cloudwatch s3 metrics count as an object?
I was recently using the metrics under the management tab in the aws s3 console and notices that for a few of my buckets the NumberOfObjects (count / day) graph seemed to be way off. I had roughly 50 objects in each of these buckets and it was…

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How to use CloudWatch or Stackdriver to verify cron job ran?
One particular use case applying to this question is that we have some resources in AWS EC2 and Google Cloud Compute with a cron job to do a nightly disk snapshot.
Is there a way to use Stackdriver to monitor the snapshot is invoked and send an…

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AWS Cloudwatch unable to retrieve Billing data
I was setting up the cloudwatch to monitor the Billing information. However, after the preference option is enabled, no data is retrieved and displayed on CloudWatch.
What has been done:
the "Receive Billing Alerts" option is enabled in Billing…

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AWS Alarm email being received every 5 minutes
I set up an alarm to alert me if my AWS instance sends more than 100MB within an hour. Traffic last night caused the threshold to be crossed. But instead of getting one notification, my inbox got flooded with email notifications arriving every 5…

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Is there a way to send SNMP traps to Cloudwatch?
I want to send SNMP traps directly to Cloudwatch.
Does AWS have a native means of receiving SNMP traps?

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