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Bleemeo integrates with AWS CloudWatch to fetch metrics from your AWS infrastructure. Resources are automatically discovered across all enabled regions, and dashboards are created for each service type.

Supported Services

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Service Description Polling Interval
EC2 Instance CPU, network, and EBS disk I/O metrics 5 minutes
RDS Database CPU, memory, disk, I/O, and connections 1 minute
ELB Load balancer requests, healthy/unhealthy hosts, and errors (ALB, NLB, Classic) 1 minute
DynamoDB Table read/write capacity, requests, and throttled events 1 minute
S3 Bucket size and object count Up to 3 times daily
Lambda Invocations, errors, duration, throttles, and concurrency 5 minutes
Account AWS Cost Explorer — daily cost, monthly forecast, and savings plan usage Daily

How It Works

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  1. You provide AWS API credentials (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) in the Bleemeo panel
  2. Bleemeo discovers all resources across your enabled AWS regions
  3. CloudWatch metrics are fetched at regular intervals per service
  4. Dashboards are automatically created for each discovered service type
  5. Metrics are available alongside your other Bleemeo data for custom dashboards and alerting

All resources are automatically discovered — when new instances, databases, or load balancers are created, Bleemeo detects them without additional configuration.

Manage Monitoring

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You can control which resources Bleemeo monitors by tagging them in AWS:

  • Add the tag bleemeo:enable = false to a resource to exclude it from monitoring — it won’t be created or appear in the Bleemeo panel.
  • Add the tag bleemeo:enable = true to lock monitoring on for a resource — the toggle in the Bleemeo panel is then disabled.
  • If a resource has neither tag, monitoring is enabled by default and you can toggle it on or off directly from the Bleemeo panel.

This is included in the IAM permissions listed for each service.

Next Steps

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  • Configuration — set up AWS credentials, IAM permissions, and estimated costs

Service Documentation

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  • EC2 — instance CPU, network, and EBS disk I/O metrics
  • RDS — database CPU, memory, disk, and connections
  • ELB — load balancer requests, targets, and errors
  • DynamoDB — table read/write capacity and throttling
  • S3 — bucket size and object count
  • Lambda — invocations, errors, duration, and concurrency
  • Cost Explorer — daily costs, forecasts, and savings plans