oba11 / cloudwatcher

EC2 Monitoring Agent

cloudwatcher

Collects memory, swap, and disk space utilization on an Amazon EC2 instance and sends this data as custom metrics to Amazon CloudWatch periodically.

Usage

To start cloudwatcher daemon you simply run:

$ cloudwatcher

You can also query Amazon CloudWatch API for recent statistics:

$ cloudwatcher statistics

Metrics

• Memory Utilization (%)
• Memory Used (MB)
• Memory Available (MB)
• Swap Utilization (%)
• Swap Used (MB)
• Disk Space Utilization (%)
• Disk Space Used (GB)
• Disk Space Available (GB)

Todo

• Fix disk space conversion
• Fix InvalidClientTokenId error
• Command-line interface
• Custom time periodicity
• Validate configuration values
• Get utilization statistics for the last X hours

Credits

Inspired by Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux.

License

MIT.