CloudWatch Metrics
- Provides metrics for every services in AWS
- Metric is a variable you can monitor (for example:
CPUUtilization,Network,..) - Metrics belong to a
namespaces Dimensionis an attribute of a metricInsanceId,Environment, ...- Up to 10 dimensions
- Has
timestamps - Can create CloudWatch dashboards of metrics
- Metric is a variable you can monitor (for example:
EC2 Detailed Monitoring
- Have default metric of every 5 minutes
- With detailed monitoring, you can get for every 1 minute
- Note: EC2 Memory usage by default is not pushed (we need to create a CloudWatch Custom Metrics for this to be pushed)