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  • 23 Jun 2022
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Module Details

Core or Github ModuleCore
Restart Required? No
Steps Exposed?Yes
Step Location Integration > AWS > CloudWwatch
Settings Location Settings must be configured for each step
Prerequisites
  • Active CloudWatch service subscription

As part of the AWS module, integration with Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and observability service used to provide data on system wide performance and resource utilization for Amazon EC2 instances. 

With the integration, information such as the average/max CPU utilization and metric data can be retrieved from CloudWatch and used within Flows and Reports.






Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance

The Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance step retrieves the average CPU utilization over a period of time for an EC2 instance.

InputDescription
RegionThe Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on
EC2 Instance IdThe ID for the EC2 instance
Start DateMarks the intial date used for retreival
End DateThe end date used for retrieval 
PeriodDefines the period of time when data is gathered


Get Max CPU Utilization for Instance

The Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance step retrieves the max CPU utilization over a period of time for an EC2 instance.

InputDescription
RegionThe Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on
EC2 Instance IdThe ID for the EC2 instance
Start DateMarks the intial date used for retreival
End DateThe end date used for retrieval
PeriodDefines the period of time when data is gathered


Get Metric Data

The Get Metric Data step is used to retrieve CloudWatch metric values, such timestamps and other identifying information for a data set.

RegionThe Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on
Instance IdThe ID for the EC2 instance
Metric NameThe name of the metric that will be returned
NamespaceThe namespace used by the metric
StatThe status code for the returned data
Start DateMarks the intial date used for retreival
End DateThe end date used for retrieval
PeriodDefines the period of time when data is gathered


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