AWS CloudWatch (Performance)

The AWS CloudWatch Performance Monitor allows you to view the performance statistics Amazon collects about your network resources and to configure thresholds for specific metrics used to trigger alerts in the event the specified metric falls below or rises above a defined value.

  1. Configure the following fields to set up your AWS CloudWatch Performance Monitor:
    • Name. Enter a unique name for the monitor. This name displays in the Performance Monitor Library.
    • Description. Enter additional information for the monitor. This description displays next to the monitor name in the Performance Monitor Library.
  2. Click Edit to begin selecting specific metrics to monitor.
  3. Select a valid AWS Credential from the list, then click OK.
  4. Select your Region.
  5. Select the AWS Namespace, Metric, and Statistic from the respective lists under Choose Metric. Please note, this is the step where you can configure the AWS CloudWatch Performance Monitor to track billing/estimated charges.
  6. Choose an instance set from the list of Available instance sets under Choose Instance. Individual instances in the specified set from which to select for monitoring appear below.
  7. Select an Instance to monitor. Once loaded, you can click Load data to preview available instance data.
  8. Click Select to return to the performance monitor configuration dialog.
  9. Click Save.

Polling Interval

After you configure and apply a AWS CloudWatch (Performance) monitor to a device, you can adjust its Polling Interval from Device Properties (Properties).

See Also

Performance Monitors

Active Script (Performance)

APC UPS (Performance)

Azure Cloud (Performance)

Azure Cloud (Billing and Usage)

CPU Utilization (Performance)

PowerShell Scripting

Disk Utilization (Performance)

Printer Ink/Toner Performance Monitor

Hyper-V Virtual Machine Disk Activity

JMX (Performance)

Interface Utilization

Memory Utilization (Performance)

Ping Latency and Availability

REST API (Performance)

SNMP (Performance)

SNMP (Performance)

SQL Query (Performance)

SSH (Performance)

VMware Datastore IOPS

Windows Performance Counter

Configuring WMI Formatted Counter monitors

WMI Performance Monitor

Hyper-V Event Log Monitor

Hyper-V Host Virtual Machines Monitor