Monitor your instances using CloudWatch (original) (raw)

You can monitor your instances using Amazon CloudWatch, which collects and processes raw data from Amazon EC2 into readable, near real-time metrics. These statistics are recorded for a period of 15 months, so that you can access historical information and gain a better perspective on how your web application or service is performing.

By default, Amazon EC2 sends metric data to CloudWatch in 5-minute periods. To send metric data for your instance to CloudWatch in 1-minute periods, you can enable detailed monitoring on the instance. For more information, see Manage detailed monitoring for your EC2 instances.

The Amazon EC2 console displays a series of graphs based on the raw data from Amazon CloudWatch. Depending on your needs, you might prefer to get data for your instances from Amazon CloudWatch instead of the graphs in the console.

For Amazon CloudWatch billing and cost information, see CloudWatch billing and cost in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Contents

• Manage CloudWatch alarms for your EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 console
• Manage detailed monitoring for your EC2 instances
• CloudWatch metrics that are available for your instances
• Install and configure the CloudWatch agent using the Amazon EC2 console to add additional metrics
• Statistics for CloudWatch metrics for your instances
• View the monitoring graphs for your instances
• Create a CloudWatch alarm for an instance
• Create alarms that stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an instance

Create custom event windows

Instance alarms

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