Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.
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Grafana table with AWS CloudWatch metric
I am trying to create a table in Grafana, which should look like this:
BUCKET CURRENT MIN AVG MAX
my-bucket-1 22 GB 0 GB 0.2 GB 22 GB
my-bucket-2 200 KB 200 KB 200 KB 200 KB
my-bucket-3 …

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Send haproxy logs to cloudwatch
We're running an haproxy container on ECS and struggling to setup logging.
The ECS container definition contains the log configuration set out in the AWS docs
"logConfiguration": {
"logDriver": "awslogs",
"options": {
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fluentd missing region error
i want to fetch cloudwatch logs. I installed cloudwatch input plugin and configured the config file of td-agent. but im getting the error as
"unexpected error error_class=aws::errors::MissingRegionError".
Any help on how to resolve this would be…

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Trying to install CloudWatch Agent on Ubuntu 14.04: "Failed to create virtualenv"
I am trying to install AWS CloudWatch Log Agent on Ubuntu 14.04 following this guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/QuickStartEC2Instance.html
When I type in
sudo python ./awslogs-agent-setup.py --region…

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Cloudwatch freshness checks like Nagios passive checks
Nagios has a nice feature called passive checks. You can define a passive service and configure a "freshness_threshold". That works great for regular jobs (i.e. backup jobs or similar) where the admin only needs to be warned if the job did not…

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Grant CloudWatch Full Access to IAM role for specific namespace
Could not find this in the documentation anywhere — let's say I want to allow an IAM role to have full CloudWatch access but only for a single namespace of my choosing.
Is this possible?

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How can I level out my auto scaling checks?
So, I have been playing around with my auto scaling config and my Cloudwatch alarms to try and keep all my instances purring but not roaring.
I can't seem to get rid of a constant yoyo. CPU usage goes up, introduce an instance, CPU usage goes down,…

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CloudWatch not honoring alarm settings
I have a CPUUtilization alarm setup for my ec2 instance. The settings for the alarm are:
CPUUtilization >= 95% for 15 consecutive periods of 1 minute (15mins total)
We are still receiving alert emails even though the instance does not appear to…

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Cloudformation Cloudwatch Template
We have a bunch of existing servers in EC2. Future servers are created with Cloudformation with Cloudwatch integration. However, I need to setup Cloudwatch for servers that weren't created with Cloudformation.
I have been asked to create a…

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How to Monitor "NetworkIn" Activity on AWS?
Last night our AWS EC2 Linux Web Server started sending out CloudWatch notices due to high CPUUtilization. We had a normal number of users active, so I am struggling a bit to figure out where the issue is coming from.
I have been looking at the…

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When EC2 instance goes down, how to bring up new machine with existing EBS volume?
We've got an app where customers upload data and documents to a number of EC2 instances. We store the uploads on EBS volumes.
Occasionally our app will fail. Sometimes it's something in our app server, and sometimes it's bad EC2 hardware.
How can I…

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Cloudwatch alarms from Amazon AWS EC2 instance are always in UT, how can I change the alarm time zone to Eastern?
I am running an Amazon linux AMI and the alarms that I've setup are coming in all showing UT (universal time). It is inconvenient reading these alarms and I'd like them setup to read in eastern time zone (or America/New_York).
I've already set my…

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how to analyze cloudwatch data?
What is the best practice to analyze whether the EC2 server/loadbalancer is overloaded? We can get some stats from Cloudwatch . But is there a user friendly way to analyze Cloudwatch data ??
Question update
What I have implemented is I have a…

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Proof that aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics works
I am learning to use the aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics subcommand in the AWS command line tool. To prove to myself that I am using the tool correctly, I would like a simple example command that should always return some data. Or, at least,…

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aws guardduty some alerts won't notify on slack
I have recently setup aws guardduty with slack notification using this guide right https://medium.com/@damitj07/how-to-create-a-slack-alert-for-guardduty-49d542927529, there were a few issues with the code regarding how to read the json, but i fixed…

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