Amazon Web Services Monitoring Overview

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Bleemeo can also fetch metrics from CloudWatch and let you build dashboards with CloudWatch metrics and other Bleemeo metrics.

Configuration

To configure AWS integration, you have in settings to go on the “AWS” tab and enter your AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key. You can refer to AWS IAM documentation to create those API keys and configure the appropriate permissions to those keys. Permission needed are detailed below and depends on which metrics are activated.

Those API keys will allow Bleemeo to query your AWS infrastructure.

You can use toggle to choose with CloudWatch metrics you want to activate.

Caution

The AWS API calls done to fetch metrics may have a cost on your AWS bills. Estimated cost provided in this page are valid for all regions but South America and GovCloud.

AWS CloudWatch have a free tier equivalent to $10 per month.

A new AWS section will be added, aws resources will be automatically added in this section, dashboards will be created automatically and you will get additional metrics on your account that you can graph on Custom Dashboard.

Dashboard Template

We create automatically one dashboard for each AWS type:

Metrics

We will detail here the needed permissions and all metrics that are fetched from AWS CloudWatch and that you can use in your dashboard.

DynamoDB

Amazon description of the service is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
dynamodb_consumed_read_capacity	Number of read unit consumed per second
dynamodb_consumed_write_capacity	Number write unit consumed per second
dynamodb_read_capacity_perc	Read capacity used in percent
dynamodb_write_capacity_perc	Write capacity used in percent
dynamodb_read_requests	Number read requests per second
dynamodb_write_requests	Number write requests per second
dynamodb_read_throttled_requests	Number read request throttled per second
dynamodb_write_throttled_requests	Number write request throttled per second

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "dynamodb:ListTables",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each DynamoDB tables, every minute Bleemeo will do 4 cloudwatch API call: $1.76 / month / table

EC2

Amazon description of the service is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Note

If you have Bleemeo agent running on your EC2 instance, Bleemeo agent will already sent all those metrics.

In such case, if you enable AWS EC2 integration those metrics will be sent twice: once from bleemeo-agent and once from AWS EC2 integration. We recommend only using Bleemeo agent.

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
ec2_cpu_credit_balance	Burstable time in percents
ec2_cpu_credit_usage	CPU burst time in seconds
ec2_cpu_surplus_credit_balance	Surplus of consumed CPU credits
ec2_cpu_surplus_credits_charged	Charged surplus of consumed CPU credits
ec2_cpu_used	CPU used in percent
ec2_io_burst_balance	Available disk burst credits in percentage
ec2_io_read_bytes	Disk read throughput in bytes per second
ec2_io_reads	Number of reads completed per second
ec2_io_utilization	Disk IO utilization in percent
ec2_io_write_bytes	Disk write throughput in bytes per second
ec2_io_writes	Number of writes completed per second
ec2_net_bits_recv	Network traffic received in bits per second
ec2_net_bits_sent	Network traffic sent in bits per second

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each EC2 with one EBS attached, every 5 minutes Bleemeo will do 8 CloudWatch API call: $0.7 / month / ec2
• For each additional EBS attached, every 5 minutes Bleemeo will do 5 additional CloudWatch API call: $0.44 / month / additional attached EBS
• For example, each EC2 with 2 EBS attached, every 5 minutes Bleemeo will do 13 CloudWatch API call: $1.14 / month / ec2

ELB

Amazon description of the service is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/

Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB) and Classic Load Balance (ELBv1) are supported.

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
elb_request	Number of requests per second
elb_unhealthy_host	Number of backend unhealthy
elb_healthy_host	Number of backend healthy
elb_backend_errors	Number of backend connection errors per second

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each ELB, every minute Bleemeo will do 4 cloudwatch API call: $1.76 / month / elb

RDS

Amazon description of the service is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
rds_cpu_used	CPU used in percent
rds_mem_used	Memory used in bytes
rds_mem_used_perc	Memory used in percent
rds_mem_free	Memory available in bytes
rds_disk_used	Filesystem space used in bytes
rds_disk_used_perc	Filesystem space used in percent
rds_disk_free	Filesystem space available in bytes
rds_io_reads	Number of reads completed per second
rds_io_writes	Number of writes completed per second
rds_connection	Number of DB connections

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each RDS instance, every minute Bleemeo will do 6 cloudwatch API call: $2.64 / month / db instance

S3

Amazon description of the service is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
s3_objects_count	Number of objects in the bucket
s3_bucket_size	Bucket size in bytes

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each S3 buckets, few times a day (up to 3) Bleemeo will do 4 cloudwatch API call: less than $0.01 / month / buckets

Account

In account aws integration, we have global metrics of account:

• Cost Explorer https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-explorer/

Metrics available:

Metric	Description
account_cost_usd	Daily cost in USD
account_cost_current_usd	Current monthly cost in USD
account_cost_forecast_usd	Cost forecast at the end of the month in USD
account_saving_plan_coverage	Saving plan coverage in percent
account_saving_plan_utilization	Saving plan utilization in percent

IAM Permissions needed:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ce:GetCostAndUsage",
                "ce:GetSavingsPlansUtilization",
                "ce:GetSavingsPlansCoverage",
                "ce:GetCostForecast"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS cost:

• For each AWS Account, Bleemeo will do one cost explorer API call for each 4 metrics: $1.24 / month / account

Note

We have 5 metrics but we are only making 4 api calls to cost explorer, account_cost_usd and account_cost_current_usd are calculated using the same call.