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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service for Amazon-hosted (AWS) cloud applications.

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How to snooze all cloudwatch alarms at specific time?

I am trying to setup snooze option for all alarms in my AWS account. To accomplish this I have tried the below terraform code. I kept my account id as dummy value 12345678. resource "...
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Is that possible to monitor mysql in cloudwatch?

I have some server in EC2, In that i have configured memory/disk usage metric in cloudwatch it is showing overall usage but i want to check memory of particular path How to check that? Is that ...
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AWS centralized logging with single index for all log groups

I am setting up logging on AWS, based on official AWS Centralized logging (source). Cloudwatch log groups are added with command like: aws logs put-subscription-filter --destination-arn DEST --log-...
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Proof that aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics works

I am learning to use the aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics subcommand in the AWS command line tool. To prove to myself that I am using the tool correctly, I would like a simple example command that ...
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alarm for direct connect is showing insufficient data with terraform, how to fix that?

I tried creating alarm for direct connect using this link. But it is showing insufficient data, so I tried creating manually from aws console and it is working. So, did a side by side comparison and ...
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How to create cloudwatch alarm for multiple ec2 instances?

Did found the similar question earlier but no solution there. How to create cloudwatch alarm for multiple ec2 instances? Let's say I have 15 ec2 instances, I can group them with a tag, how to create ...
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aws guardduty some alerts won't notify on slack

I have recently setup aws guardduty with slack notification using this guide right https://medium.com/@damitj07/how-to-create-a-slack-alert-for-guardduty-49d542927529, there were a few issues with the ...
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Is there way to monitor all aws iam users activity and send email alert using python lambda?

I have tried send alert notification for AWS IAM all users activity from lambda python, however its not working, please share any other way to work and find below cloudwatch event patter and lambda ...
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How to create Multi-metric Alarm

There are multiple instances with servicename-N running & i am able to push custom metric using python sdk to Namespace-X. However when i create alarm it only let me select One metric from one of ...
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AWS RDS Slow Query, General, and Audit logs have disappeared. Enhanced Monitoring cannot be turned on

I had AWS RDS enhanced monitoring turned on in our Production and UAT RDS databases. These are connected to an ERP instance. I went to look for slow queries while debugging a user issue, and the Audit,...
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Event Details in Cloudwatch Alarm (cloudtrail)

We Have a trail created, and dumping into cloudwatch logs group. From there i have crated a metric filter for various activities we wish to monitor. (root access, IAM ROLE Changes, Deletions, ETC). I ...
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How to locate a specific request in AWS, cloudtrail or Athena

How locate a specific request in AWS, cloudtrail or cloudwatch? Request on 2022-11-17T17:07:52.037Z General: Request URL: https://0712f1246-1104-y-https-www-abc-com.mplbci.ekb.eg/access HTTP Version: ...
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AWS set ec2 instance as unhealthy if specific service is down

I have couple of instances part of ASG, these are worker ec2 instances not exposed to the public, there is a systemctl service initialized via user-data, sometimes initializing the service fails for a ...
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AWS-EC2 100% CPU Utilization

I am curious to know about 2 things below about the AWS-EC2 CPU utilization and CPU Credits. What will happen if my AWS-EC2 instance CPU utilization is constantly 100% and I ran out of CPU credits? ...
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Is it possible to have a Cloudwatch alarm of the specific events of a ElastiCache Redis cluster?

I need some solution to get cloudwatch alarm notification for specific elasticache events like '''ElastiCache:CacheNodeReplaceStarted''', '''ElastiCache:RemoveCacheNodeComplete'''. I know we can ...
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AWS CloudWatch Alarm on Max Average CPU from ASG

I am trying to create an alarm in CloudWatch which triggers when any node in a given ASG has greater than 90% average CPU utilisation. I don't want to just do MAX, because we often see short spikes to ...
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Why are docker container logs sent from ec2 to cloudwatch in batches using awslogs driver?

I have three docker containers running; server, proxy server and a daemon checking for changes between two databases. I've used docker-compose and an ec2 instance for testing. I would like to stream ...
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Inconsistency between CloudWatch alert and Container Insights

I am running a .NET 6 container in ECS Fargate. My task definition defines the task size: Task Memory: 1024 Task CPU: 512 The task has 2 containers running - the service and the envoy proxy. The ...
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk random spike in NetworkIn traffic once to twice a day

Unusual traffic on my Elastic Beanstalk application. NetworkIn, NetworkOut both spike once to twice a day at random times. Sometimes it crashes my load balancer and I have to go in and manually kill ...
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How do you see devices (e.g., Galaxy S10) on AWS CloudWatch RUM?

I feel like I'm missing something simple here — like just not seeing which button to press in the console, but I've enabled CloudWatch RUM. If I go to CloudWatch -> RUM -> Browsers & Devices ...
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How do I get more information about a CloudTrailAuthorizationFailures alarm

I am getting several of these alarms, so I decided to look at the event history in CloudTrail. However there are no events that I can see with error codes. I would've thought that events that cause ...
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How can I send deployment pod count metrics with cwagent (Container Insights)?

I've set up the CloudWatch agent to collect kubernetes cluster metrics and send them to CloudWatch. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Container-Insights-setup-metrics.html ...
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How can I send HorizontalPodAutoscaler metrics to AWS CloudWatch?

I've just set up the AWS CloudWatch agent in my Kubernetes cluster to collect cluster metrics and forward them to CloudWatch. I followed this AWS documentation. I can't see any metrics from ...
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Can't find Amplify access logs in CloudWatch log groups

I'm creating a CloudWatch dashboard and I want to monitor Amplify access logs beside other metrics. I can find the access logs inside the Amplify dashboard (Screenshot below) but I can't find the same ...
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Creating a custom CloudWatch Event to monitor every new commit for GitHub repository instead of CodeCommit repo state change

Could you please assist me in understanding if it is possible to create a custom CloudWatch Event to monitor every new commit for GitHub repositories instead of CodeCommit repo state changes? It has ...
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Zabbix integration with AWS and or Azure

I am trying to figure out direct integration between Zabbix and AWS CloudWatch or Azure Monitor. I have seen YT videos available to integrate Zabbix with grafana first and then integrate grafana with ...
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Amazon AWS RDS Burst Balance vs CPU Credit Balance

I'm trying to understand if I have spec'd my database appropriately. Below is a chart showing the WriteIOPS, CPUCreditBalance and BurstBalance for a t3.xlarge instance of SQL Server. It looks like I'm ...
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Are the units incorrect for Storage Read / Write graphs in AWS ECS Container Insights?

In AWS Console > CloudWatch > Container Insights > Performance monitoring > ECS Tasks, the graphs for both Storage Read and Storage Write have units shown as Bytes/Second like this: ...
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AWS CloudWatch parse JSON case insensitive

On the WAF section of the AWS console there is a tab for "CloudWatch Log Insights" that provides a few sample queries. One of these is "Top 100 hosts". fields @timestamp, @message |...
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Difference between display and fields directives in CloudWatch Logs Insights query syntax

What is the difference between display and fields directives in CloudWatch Logs Insights query syntax? These are descriptions from the AWS documentation that look very similar to me : display: ...
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amazon-cloudwatch-agent shuts down on every application reload

I have a Tomcat app on Elastic Beanstalk, and I want to send logs to Cloudwatch Logs. To that end, I set up log4j to write to file, and in .ebextension, amazon-cloudwatch-agent is installed and run. ...
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Distinguish virtual host in AWS CloudWatch Log Group entries

I am wondering how I can know what host an event in httpd's access/error logs corresponds with once that data is brought into CloudWatch. I use virtual hosts on apache. I currently have a file per ...
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Using CloudWatch to monitor concurrent users

I'm looking for a good way to monitor concurrent users in my server. The server's got a websocket connection, so it's easy to determine whether a user is connected or not. After looking into ...
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AWS: What is the difference between Burst Balance and EBS IO Balance metrics?

AWS Docs describe Burst Balance and EEBS IO Balance in the following way: BurstBalance The percent of General Purpose SSD (gp2) burst-bucket I/O credits available. EBSIOBalance% The percentage of I/O ...
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How to collect and consolidate application health across instances in aws

We deploy several applications across EC2 instances. They are jar files, war files on Tomcat, npm based UI applications and python scripts. Each has a different way of validation. For war files under ...
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How can I search across CloudWatch log groups on AWS?

I have a number of lambda functions which run my serverless backend. Something somewhere is misbehaving, and I need to bring up/search all the logs from a particular time — from all log groups, not ...
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Cloudwatch Agent high CPU usage

We are using AWS Cloudwatch to monitor CPU usage, p99 latency for API calls etc. The problem is during peak traffic Amazon Cloudwatch Agent itself is having 25%-35% of CPU usage, thus largely ...
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Amazon CloudWatch Agent Logging Error and Output

I am having an issue with CloudWatch Agent on a specific EC2 instance. I have tested on several other instance with no issue. I have attached the defined CloudWatch Agent IAM Role specified here to ...
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How to diagnose cross account EC2/RDS connection with vpc flow logs in AWS?

In AWS, made 2 accounts. account 1: A | Deployed EC2 account 2: B | Deployed RDS Want to connect from account 1's EC2 to account 2's RDS, but doesn't work. So enabled VPC flow logs to diagnose where ...
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Permissions for choosing tags in Cloudwatch

When trying to create a Cloudwatch dashboard I get "You don't have permission to access tags and properties. Retry". What permissions does my IAM account have to have in order to be able to ...
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Can I monitor a rolling window using Cloudwatch?

What I'm looking to do within Cloudwatch dashboards is to monitor the performance of my application over 14 days, but re-evaluate that performance every hour. However, from everything I've tried so ...
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Auditd to CloudwatchLogs to IDS alerts?

I'm administering a relatively simple AWS stack with about 5 heterogeneous Linux EC2 instances. All instances already have been setup to ship important logs to Cloudwatch Logs. Now I want to setup a ...
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How to stop Lambda from incurring CloudTrail charges related to CreateLogStream?

I manage an actually not very big website, but Lambda is used extensively, invoked many times per site visit, resulting in hundreds of thousands of calls per month. I noticed a spike in CloudTrail ...
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CloudWatch Agent procstat - get status about all nodejs processes separately

I'm trying to get process level monitoring going for an EC2 instance with a bunch of small nodejs services on it. Right now I am using this configuration: { "metrics": { "...
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How do you get a metric of cloudwatch log group size?

I want to track and alert if my logs go awry. But I can't find a way of tracking the stored bytes for a log group. Is it possible to even add that as a metric?
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CloudWatch InSights: how to extract/query json object array

We have logs published to CloudWatch like this(flattened JSON data using json.dumps()): [ {"Value": 9, "id": "ia-122"}, {"Value": 13, "id": "...
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How to stream CloudWatch log group to specific Lambda function version?

When creating a new subscription filter for a CloudWatch log group, the AWS Console doesn't seem to offer a way to select a specific Lambda fn version. This is important for CI/CD where I might want ...
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Seeing Java Spring Boot logs from AWS Elastic Beanstalk in AWS CloudWatch

I'm reading the documentation but I'm not understanding simple Java application log access via CloudWatch from AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I have a simple Java Spring Boot Application deployed on Elastic ...
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Setting up autoscaling based on network throughput

I need help in setting up autoscaling based on network throughput. Our front instances are placed inside an autoscaling group. We want the number of instances to increase as a function of network ...
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CloudWatch InSights: how to extract/query all JSON array elements at once as a list

My company has started using JSON logging in order to better support CloudWatch InSights queries on AWS. The queries are quite easy to work with, except when we are dealing with array data. For ...
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