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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

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

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

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

Configuration — set up AWS credentials
Agent Installation — install the Bleemeo agent on EC2 for higher-resolution metrics