Amazon AWS CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers.
CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications and services that run on AWS, and on-premises servers. You can use CloudWatch to set high-resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to optimize your applications and ensure they are running smoothly.
About
Version Info
| Range | Key Features | Based on | System Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | Initial version | - | - |
| 1.0.1.x | Adds connection to receive SNS HTTP notifications. | 1.0.0.7 | - |
| 1.0.2.x [SLC Main] | MediaLive metric table params changed from string to number. | 1.0.1.19 | - |
Product Info
| Range | Supported Firmware |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | 20100801 |
| 1.0.1.x | 20100801 |
| 1.0.2.x | 20100801 |
System Info
| Range | DCF Integration | Cassandra Compliant | Linked Components | Exported Components |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | No | Yes | - | Amazon AWS CloudWatch - API Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Direct Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Spot Fleet Amazon AWS CloudWatch - MediaPackage Amazon AWS CloudWatch - S3 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Transit Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Kinesis Data Streams Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Lambda Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Media Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Simple Notification Service Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC NAT Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC VPN Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Route 53 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Cognito Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Network ELB |
| 1.0.1.x | No | Yes | - | Amazon AWS CloudWatch - API Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Direct Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Spot Fleet Amazon AWS CloudWatch - MediaPackage Amazon AWS CloudWatch - S3 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Transit Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Kinesis Data Streams Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Lambda Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Media Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Simple Notification Service Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC NAT Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC VPN Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Route 53 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Cognito Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Network ELB |
| 1.0.2.x | No | Yes | - | Amazon AWS CloudWatch - API Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Direct Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - EC2 Spot Fleet Amazon AWS CloudWatch - MediaPackage Amazon AWS CloudWatch - S3 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Transit Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Kinesis Data Streams Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Lambda Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Media Connect Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Simple Notification Service Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC NAT Gateway Amazon AWS CloudWatch - VPC VPN Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Route 53 Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Cognito Amazon AWS CloudWatch - Network ELB |
Configuration
Connections
HTTP Main Connection
This connector uses an HTTP connection and requires the following input during element creation:
HTTP CONNECTION:
IP address/host: The monitoring AWS URL from the desired region. The URL should have the following structure: monitoring.<region>.amazonaws.com.
IP port: The IP port of the device.
Note
This connector is compatible with both HTTP and HTTPS. By default, the IP port configuration is set to 80. To utilize HTTPS, adjust the IP port to 443.
Bus address: Specify bypassproxy if the proxy server has to be bypassed.
IP Connection
This connector uses a smart-serial connection and requires the following input during element creation:
HTTP CONNECTION:
IP address/host: Any.
IP port: The IP port on which the connector will listen for SNS HTTP notifications.
Bus address: Specify bypassproxy if the proxy server has to be bypassed.
Initialization
Before polling can start, you first need to enter the credentials on the General page. The Access Key and Secret Key must always be filled in. Session Token only has to be filled in if credentials for a temporary user are being used.
Usage
HTTP POST messages are used to communicate with the Amazon AWS CloudWatch. This connector will export different connectors based on the retrieved data. A list can be found in the section "Exported Connectors".
General
This page contains Login options, as well as information on which services should be polled with this element. To make sure that the connector can work properly, you must first provide login information.
First specify the Default Polling Interval and Default Poll All Metrics column values of the Amazon Services table. These are the values that will be applied when a new service entry has been added. Changing these values will have no impact on existing Service Entries. If Default Polling Interval has a value other than Disabled, a DVE element will be created and the enabled metrics will be polled at the specified polling interval. If Default Poll All Metrics is Enabled, all available metrics will be polled by the DVE at the configured polling interval.
Warning: Amazon may charge when metrics are polled. Enabling the polling of all metrics by default could come with an additional cost.
Specify which services should be polled with the Poll column of the Amazon Services table by setting the appropriate service row to Enabled. Warning: Setting this to Disabled will remove existing DVE elements of this service. Discovered entries will be added to the Service Entries table.
SNS Debug
This page contains Account information. If a received message does not match the account, it will not be processed. The page also contains information about the topic that is currently subscribed and the SNS service that is sending the notifications.
It also displays information on the last received notification.
Service Entries
On this page, you can control DVE creation. With the Automatic Delete Service Entries parameter, you can set entries to be automatically removed. With the Get Service Entries button, you can refresh the Service Entries table.
With the Name column of the Service Entries table, you can change a DVE element name. You can create a DVE element by setting the Polling Interval to a different value than Disabled. Setting Poll All Metrics allows you to enable or disable the polling of all metrics of the DVE. You can remove a DVE element by clicking the Delete button; however, this can only be done when the Polling Interval is Disabled or the Status has the Fail value.
Other Pages
The connector provides a page per supported service type. These pages contain the table that is used to export DVE elements and a table that allows you to configure the polling of each metric. The polling is spread so that not all DVE elements poll at the same interval. To immediately poll the enabled metrics of a DVE, click the Force Polling column button. Use the context menus of the tables for a quicker configuration, to set the Polling Interval or to Poll All Metrics for multiple selected DVE rows.
Notes
It is not possible to set the Poll parameter to Enabled for metric parameters that have the N/A value. These N/A metrics are not present in the provided metrics list for this instance and hence their Poll parameter will remain Disabled.