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AWS EC2 Monitoring

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Bleemeo collects metrics for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and their attached EBS volumes via CloudWatch. Metrics are polled every 5 minutes.

Metrics

Section titled “Metrics”
Metric Description
ec2_cpu_used CPU usage as a percentage
ec2_cpu_credit_usage Number of CPU credits consumed (burstable instances)
ec2_cpu_credit_balance Available CPU credit balance (burstable instances)
ec2_cpu_surplus_credit_balance Surplus CPU credits consumed beyond the baseline
ec2_cpu_surplus_credits_charged Surplus CPU credits that incurred charges
ec2_net_bits_recv Network traffic received in bits per second
ec2_net_bits_sent Network traffic sent in bits per second
ec2_io_read_bytes Disk read throughput in bytes per second (per EBS volume)
ec2_io_reads Number of read operations per second (per EBS volume)
ec2_io_write_bytes Disk write throughput in bytes per second (per EBS volume)
ec2_io_writes Number of write operations per second (per EBS volume)
ec2_io_utilization Disk I/O utilization as a percentage (per EBS volume)
ec2_io_burst_balance Available disk burst credits as a percentage (per EBS volume)

IAM Permissions

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

Estimated AWS Cost

Section titled “Estimated AWS Cost”
  • $0.70/month per EC2 instance (with one EBS volume attached)
  • $0.44/month per additional attached EBS volume
  • Example: an EC2 instance with 2 EBS volumes costs approximately $1.14/month

See Also

Section titled “See Also”