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AWS CLoudWatch EC2 Detailed monitoring

AWS CloudWatch EC2 Detailed monitoringΒΆ

  • AWS EC2 instance metrics have metrics "every 5 minutes"
  • With detailed monitoring (for a cost), you get data "every 1 minute"
  • Use detailed monitoring if you want to more prompt scale your Auto Scaling Group (ASG)

  • The AWS Free Tier allows us to have 10 detailed monitoring metrics

  • Note: AWS EC2 Memory usage is by default not pushed (must be pushed from inside the instance as a custom metric)