Metrics collected by the CloudWatch Agent

CloudWatch Agent allows do the following:

  • Collect internal system-level metrics from Amazon EC2 instances across operating systems

    PlatformWhere CloudWatch Agent collects metrics from?Metrics
    WindowsWindows Performance Monitor
    Available bytes
    Cache Faults/sec
    Page Faults/sec
    Pages/sec
    LinuxMemory metrics: /proc/meminfo
    Active (Bytes)
    Available (Bytes)
    Available Percent (Percent)
    Buffered (Bytes)
    Cached (Bytes)
    Free (Bytes)
    Inactive (Bytes)
    Total (Bytes)
    Used (Bytes)
    Used Percent (Percent)
    Mac~ Linux~ Linux

  • Collect system-level metrics from on-premises servers.

  • Retrieve custom metrics from your applications or services using the StatsD and collectd protocols.

  • Collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers,