AWS metrics

Important

Additional AWS charges for GetMetricData API requests are generated using this module.

Monitor EC2 instances ¶

To help you analyze the EC2 instance metrics listed on the Infrastructure inventory page, you can select view filters based on the following predefined metrics or you can add custom metrics.


CPU Usage	Average of `aws.ec2.cpu.total.pct`.
Inbound Traffic	Average of `aws.ec2.network.in.bytes_per_sec`.
Outbound Traffic	Average of `aws.ec2.network.out.bytes_per_sec`.
Disk Reads (Bytes)	Average of `aws.ec2.diskio.read.bytes_per_sec`.
Disk Writes (Bytes)	Average of `aws.ec2.diskio.write.bytes_per_sec`.

Monitor S3 buckets ¶

To help you analyze the S3 bucket metrics listed on the Infrastructure inventory page, you can select view filters based on the following predefined metrics or you can add custom metrics.


Bucket Size	Average of `aws.s3_daily_storage.bucket.size.bytes`.
Total Requests	Average of `aws.s3_request.requests.total`.
Number of Objects	Average of `aws.s3_daily_storage.number_of_objects`.
Downloads (Bytes)	Average of `aws.s3_request.downloaded.bytes`.
Uploads (Bytes)	Average of `aws.s3_request.uploaded.bytes`.

Monitor SQS queues ¶

To help you analyze the SQS queue metrics listed on the Infrastructure inventory page, you can select view filters based on the following predefined metrics or you can add custom metrics.


Messages Available	Max of `aws.sqs.messages.visible`.
Messages Delayed	Max of `aws.sqs.messages.delayed`.
Messages Added	Max of `aws.sqs.messages.sent`.
Messages Returned Empty	Max of `aws.sqs.messages.not_visible`.
Oldest Message	Max of `aws.sqs.oldest_message_age.sec`.

Monitor RDS databases ¶

To help you analyze the RDS database metrics listed on the Infrastructure inventory page, you can select view filters based on the following predefined metrics or you can add custom metrics.


CPU Usage	Average of `aws.rds.cpu.total.pct`.
Connections	Average of `aws.rds.database_connections`.
Queries Executed	Average of `aws.rds.queries`.
Active Transactions	Average of `aws.rds.transactions.active`.
Latency	Average of `aws.rds.latency.dml`.

For information about which required fields the Infrastructure app uses to display AWS services metrics, see the Infrastructure app field reference.