AWS metricsedit

If you haven’t already, you need to install and configure Metricbeat to populate the Metrics app with data. For more information, see Ingest metrics.

To ingest metrics from AWS CloudWatch using the GetMetricData API, you can install Metricbeat on any machine that can make the API requests and enable the AWS module.

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

Monitor EC2 instancesedit

To help you analyze the EC2 instance metrics listed on the 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 bucketsedit

To help you analyze the S3 bucket metrics listed on the 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 queuesedit

To help you analyze the SQS queue metrics listed on the 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 databasesedit

To help you analyze the RDS database metrics listed on the 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 Metrics app uses to display AWS services metrics, see the Metrics field reference.