I notice that you poll the Cloudwatch API to get metric ingestion for a number of AWS products, but are missing the ability to ingest Custom Cloudwatch metrics.
We produce custom metrics, and would really like to be able to use them in Site 24x7.
They tend to have a pretty standard 5 minute polling interval. Currently there are about 20 of these metrics we alert on using Cloudwatch Alarms.
Even having the ability to ingest Cloudwatch alarms would be a great start.
Hi Quentin,
Thanks for raising your requirement.
We do have plans to support custom metrics. We are currently in the development phase . In the meantime , we would like to understand about your usage , in case of custom metrics. It would be great , if you can share the following details
1. Dimensions used.
2. Statistics preferred for these metrics(for alerting).
3. How you classify those metrics?(For example , a custom metric shall be used for a particular instance of type cx.large. How do you prefer to see that classification , in case of metric data being shown?)
With respect to CloudWatch Alarms, we will add this to our product roadmap. We will update you on this pretty soon.
Regards,
Ananthkumar K S
Thanks for look at this Ananthkumar K S.
Our primary usage is the output from a Cloudwatch agent installed on a EC2 instance. This gives a lot of additional detail that is not present with the Native Cloudwatch metrics for EC2.
Here's AWS's documentation on what can be collected: docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/metrics-collected-by-CloudWatch-agent.html
The metric and units are all detailed in the AWS documentation.
Outside of the EC2 CW agent use case, our developers are outputting their logs to CW logs, and event output to their own custom Cloudwatch metrics. The metrics and units will be unique for each product, and are used to alert if a threshold is met. e.g. Some output a file count every 5 minutes, and alert actions are taken on too few / too many files.
Hi Marcelo,
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
We are currently working on integrating the Cloudwatch agent metrics with appropriate EC2 and it's expected to be available next month.
With respect to custom metrics, we are currently in the requirements gathering phase and you shall expect to hear from us in Q4 regarding this.
Hope this helps. Kindly let us know if we can help you with any other details.
Regards,
Ananthkumar K S
Hi Ananthkumar,
We are looking for the same as our client had already added custom metrics in their AWS Account, we have been insisted to monitor the same in site 24/7. So is the option available and will i be able to fetch aws custom metrics here?
Regards,
yashvari.
Hi Yashvari,
Thanks for reaching out to us with your requirement.
We are currently in the development phase for custom metrics from CloudWatch . As per plan , we will be releasing the support for this in Q2 of 2022. We will try our best to better this timeline .
Regards,
Ananthkumar K S