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Monitoring Memory and Disk Metrics for AWS EC2 Instances

Idris Rampurawala on September 02, 2019

Amazon Web Services(AWS) reports some good metrics on the console by default, like CPU, but some key metrics like memory usage or disk space are mi...
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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I think this is the old way, the recommended way by AWS is to use the unified CloudWatch Agent which can be installed via Systems Managers Run Commands.

Its recommended but it can be a bit of a pain to hunt down the step by step instructions. I've been meaning to tutorialize the steps at some point.

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Idris Rampurawala • Edited

You are right Andrew. That's the reason of mentioning the same in the last point in Points to remember section. And yeah, AWS documentation is sometimes a bit of a pain to understand and hence wrote this post to easily understand the steps to get started.

P.S. Your Udemy tutorial really helped me boost my knowledge of AWS when I had just started. Keep sharing! 😅😊