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Updated on 19 Apr 2024
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Module Details
Core or Github Module	Core
Restart Required?	No
Steps Exposed?	Yes
Step Location	Integration > AWS > CloudWatch
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.

Input	Description
Region	The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on.
EC2 Instance Id	The ID for the EC2 instance.
Start Date	Marks the initial date used for retrieval.
End Date	The end date used for retrieval.
Period	Defines 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.

Input	Description
Region	The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on.
EC2 Instance Id	The ID for the EC2 instance.
Start Date	Marks the initial date used for retrieval.
End Date	The end date used for retrieval.
Period	Defines 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.

Region	The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on.
Instance Id	The ID for the EC2 instance.
Metric Name	The name of the metric that will be returned.
Namespace	The namespace used by the metric.
Stat	The status code for the returned data.
Start Date	Marks the initial date used for retrieval.
End Date	The end date used for retrieval.
Period	Defines the period of time when data is gathered.