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Viewing Your AWS Metrics With Amazon CloudWatch
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Amazon CloudWatch offers basic monitoring for several AWS products. Basic monitoring means that a service sends data points to Amazon CloudWatch every five minutes. Amazon CloudWatch offers detailed monitoring for Amazon EC2 and Auto Scaling. Detailed monitoring means that a service sends data points to Amazon CloudWatch every minute. Amazon CloudWatch currently provides basic monitoring for the following services:
Amazon DynamoDB begins sending basic statistics automatically when you begin using it. For more information, see Amazon DynamoDB Dimensions and Metrics.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) begins sending basic statistics automatically when you launch any instance (including instances of paid AMIs). You can opt for detailed monitoring. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dimensions and Metrics.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) begins sending basic statistics automatically when you mount the volume. For more information, see Amazon EBS Dimensions and Metrics.
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) begins sending basic statistics automatically when you create a job flow. For more information, see Amazon Elastic MapReduce Dimensions and Metrics.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) begins sending RDS-specific statistics when you begin using RDS. For more information, see Amazon RDS Dimensions and Metrics.
Elastic Load Balancing begins sending statistics when you begin using it. For more information, see Elastic Load Balancing Dimensions and Metrics.
Auto Scaling begins sending statistics when you begin using it. You can opt for detailed monitoring. For more information, see Auto Scaling Dimensions and Metrics.
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If you are registered with an AWS product that supports both basic and detailed data collection, and want to access detailed statistics, you must enable detailed metric collection for that service. For more information, see Activating Detailed Monitoring for Amazon EC2. |
