20-07 CloudWatch Metrics

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

A CloudWatch Metric represents a time-ordered set of data points

It’s a variable that is monitored over time.

CloudWatch comes with many predefined metrics that are generally namespaced by AWS Service.

EC2 Per-Instance Metrics

• CPUUtilization
• DiskReadOps
• DiskWriteOps
• DiskReadBytes
• DiskWriteBytes
• NetworkIn
• NetworkOut
• NetworkPacketsIn
• NetworkPacketsOut