CloudWatch Agent
Despite CloudWatch not being listed as a standalone integration in Cloudaware Admin, Cloudaware integrates with CloudWatch agents to gather instance-level utilization data and provide customers with capacity utilization reports.
Prerequisites
Review your CloudWatch agent configuration to provide Cloudaware with the following details:
Do all the CW agents have the same configuration, or is each one configured separately? Learn more
Is the namespace custom or the default one (
CWAgent)?Are the metrics stored on the same account or sent to a different account*? Learn more
If you have a centralized configuration file for all CW agents, please get the file as shown here.
*Please note that Cloudaware will not be able to collect CloudWatch metrics that are sent to a different account.
What pair of dimensions
InstanceId+InstanceTypeare you using - default or custom** one? Read more (see the section CloudWatch agent configuration file: Metrics section →aggregation_dimensions)
**Please note that Cloudaware will not be able to collect metrics if a custom pair of dimensions is used.
Adding CW agent config file to Cloudaware
Provide CloudWatch agent configuration information to Cloudaware by contacting your dedicated technical account manager or via tam@cloudaware.com.
Please allow 24 hours for the data to be collected in Cloudaware.
Capacity Report Data In Cloudaware
Capacity utilization data is available on an instance level in Cloudaware:
