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Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent
Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent on Windows Server instances
Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent on Linux and macOS instances
metrics list by CWAgent
Metric
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Metric
Description
1
cpu_time_active
The amount of time that the CPU is active in any capacity. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
2
cpu_time_guest
The amount of time that the CPU is running a virtual CPU for a guest operating system. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
3
cpu_time_guest_nice
The amount of time that the CPU is running a virtual CPU for a guest operating system, which is low-priority and can be interrupted by other processes. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
4
cpu_time_idle
The amount of time that the CPU is idle. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
5
cpu_time_iowait
The amount of time that the CPU is waiting for I/O operations to complete. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
6
cpu_time_irq
The amount of time that the CPU is servicing interrupts. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
7
cpu_time_nice
The amount of time that the CPU is in user mode with low-priority processes, which can easily be interrupted by higher-priority processes. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
8
cpu_time_softirq
The amount of time that the CPU is servicing software interrupts. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
9
cpu_time_steal
The amount of time that the CPU is in stolen time, which is time spent in other operating systems in a virtualized environment. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
10
cpu_time_system
The amount of time that the CPU is in system mode. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
11
cpu_time_user
The amount of time that the CPU is in user mode. This metric is measured in hundredths of a second.
Unit: None
12
cpu_usage_active
The percentage of time that the CPU is active in any capacity.
Unit: Percent
13
cpu_usage_guest
The percentage of time that the CPU is running a virtual CPU for a guest operating system.
Unit: Percent
14
cpu_usage_guest_nice
The percentage of time that the CPU is running a virtual CPU for a guest operating system, which is low-priority and can be interrupted by other processes.
Unit: Percent
15
cpu_usage_idle
The percentage of time that the CPU is idle.
Unit: Percent
16
cpu_usage_iowait
The percentage of time that the CPU is waiting for I/O operations to complete.
Unit: Percent
17
cpu_usage_irq
The percentage of time that the CPU is servicing interrupts.
Unit: Percent
18
cpu_usage_nice
The percentage of time that the CPU is in user mode with low-priority processes, which higher-priority processes can easily interrupt.
Unit: Percent
19
cpu_usage_softirq
The percentage of time that the CPU is servicing software interrupts.
Unit: Percent
20
cpu_usage_steal
The percentage of time that the CPU is in stolen time, or time spent in other operating systems in a virtualized environment.
Unit: Percent
21
cpu_usage_system
The percentage of time that the CPU is in system mode.
Unit: Percent
22
cpu_usage_user
The percentage of time that the CPU is in user mode.
Unit: Percent
23
disk_free
Free space on the disks.
Unit: Bytes
24
disk_inodes_free
The number of available index nodes on the disk.
Unit: Count
25
disk_inodes_total
The total number of index nodes reserved on the disk.
Unit: Count
26
disk_inodes_used
The number of used index nodes on the disk.
Unit: Count
27
disk_total
Total space on the disks, including used and free.
Unit: Bytes
28
disk_used
Used space on the disks.
Unit: Bytes
29
disk_used_percent
The percentage of total disk space that is used.
Unit: Percent
30
diskio_iops_in_progress
The number of I/O requests that have been issued to the device driver but have not yet completed.
Unit: Count
31
diskio_io_time
The amount of time that the disk has had I/O requests queued.
Unit: Milliseconds
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
32
diskio_reads
The number of disk read operations.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
33
diskio_read_bytes
The number of bytes read from the disks.
Unit: Bytes
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
34
diskio_read_time
The amount of time that read requests have waited on the disks. Multiple read requests waiting at the same time increase the number. For example, if 5 requests all wait for an average of 100 milliseconds, 500 is reported.
Unit: Milliseconds
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
35
diskio_writes
The number disk write operations.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
36
diskio_write_bytes
The number of bytes written to the disks.
Unit: Bytes
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
37
diskio_write_time
The amount of time that write requests have waited on the disks. Multiple write requests waiting at the same time increase the number. For example, if 8 requests all wait for an average of 1000 milliseconds, 8000 is reported.
Unit: Milliseconds
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
38
ethtool_bw_in_allowance_exceeded
The number of packets queued and/or dropped because the inbound aggregate bandwidth exceeded the maximum for the instance..
This metric is collected only if you have listed it in the ethtool subsection of the metrics_collected section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file. For more information, see
Unit: None
39
ethtool_bw_out_allowance_exceeded
The number of packets queued and/or dropped because the outbound aggregate bandwidth exceeded the maximum for the instance..
This metric is collected only if you have listed it in the ethtool subsection of the metrics_collected section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file. For more information, see
Unit: None
40
ethtool_conntrack_allowance_exceeded
The number of packets dropped because connection tracking exceeded the maximum for the instance and new connections could not be established. This can result in packet loss for traffic to or from the instance.
This metric is collected only if you have listed it in the ethtool subsection of the metrics_collected section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file. For more information, see
Unit: None
41
ethtool_linklocal_allowance_exceeded
The number of packets dropped because the PPS of the traffic to local proxy services exceeded the maximum for the network interface. This impacts traffic to the DNS service, the Instance Metadata Service, and the Amazon Time Sync Service.
This metric is collected only if you have listed it in the ethtool subsection of the metrics_collected section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file. For more information, see
Unit: None
42
ethtool_pps_allowance_exceeded
The number of packets queued and/or dropped because the bidirectional PPS exceeded the maximum for the instance.
This metric is collected only if you have listed it in the ethtool subsection of the metrics_collected section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file. For more information, see .
Unit: None
43
mem_active
The amount of memory that has been used in some way during the last sample period.
Unit: Bytes
44
mem_available
The amount of memory that is available and can be given instantly to processes.
Unit: Bytes
45
mem_available_percent
The percentage of memory that is available and can be given instantly to processes.
Unit: Percent
46
mem_buffered
The amount of memory that is being used for buffers.
Unit: Bytes
47
mem_cached
The amount of memory that is being used for file caches.
Unit: Bytes
48
mem_free
The amount of memory that isn't being used.
Unit: Bytes
49
mem_inactive
The amount of memory that hasn't been used in some way during the last sample period
Unit: Bytes
50
mem_total
The total amount of memory.
Unit: Bytes
51
mem_used
The amount of memory currently in use.
Unit: Bytes
52
mem_used_percent
The percentage of memory currently in use.
Unit: Percent
53
net_bytes_recv
The number of bytes received by the network interface.
Unit: Bytes
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
54
net_bytes_sent
The number of bytes sent by the network interface.
Unit: Bytes
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
55
net_drop_in
The number of packets received by this network interface that were dropped.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
56
net_drop_out
The number of packets transmitted by this network interface that were dropped.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
57
net_err_in
The number of receive errors detected by this network interface.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
58
net_err_out
The number of transmit errors detected by this network interface.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
59
net_packets_sent
The number of packets sent by this network interface.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
60
net_packets_recv
The number of packets received by this network interface.
Unit: Count
The only statistic that should be used for this metric is Sum. Do not use Average.
61
netstat_tcp_close
The number of TCP connections with no state.
Unit: Count
62
netstat_tcp_close_wait
The number of TCP connections waiting for a termination request from the client.
Unit: Count
63
netstat_tcp_closing
The number of TCP connections that are waiting for a termination request with acknowledgement from the client.
Unit: Count
64
netstat_tcp_established
The number of TCP connections established.
Unit: Count
65
netstat_tcp_fin_wait1
The number of TCP connections in the FIN_WAIT1 state during the process of closing a connection.
Unit: Count
66
netstat_tcp_fin_wait2
The number of TCP connections in the FIN_WAIT2 state during the process of closing a connection.
Unit: Count
67
netstat_tcp_last_ack
The number of TCP connections waiting for the client to send acknowledgement of the connection termination message. This is the last state right before the connection is closed down.
Unit: Count
68
netstat_tcp_listen
The number of TCP ports currently listening for a connection request.
Unit: Count
69
netstat_tcp_none
The number of TCP connections with inactive clients.
Unit: Count
70
netstat_tcp_syn_sent
The number of TCP connections waiting for a matching connection request after having sent a connection request.
Unit: Count
71
netstat_tcp_syn_recv
The number of TCP connections waiting for connection request acknowledgement after having sent and received a connection request.
Unit: Count
72
netstat_tcp_time_wait
The number of TCP connections currently waiting to ensure that the client received the acknowledgement of its connection termination request.
Unit: Count
73
netstat_udp_socket
The number of current UDP connections.
Unit: Count
74
processes_blocked
The number of processes that are blocked.
Unit: Count
75
processes_dead
The number of processes that are dead, indicated by the X state code on Linux.
This metric is not collected on macOS computers.
Unit: Count
76
processes_idle
The number of processes that are idle (sleeping for more than 20 seconds). Available only on FreeBSD instances.
Unit: Count
77
processes_paging
The number of processes that are paging, indicated by the W state code on Linux.
This metric is not collected on macOS computers.
Unit: Count
78
processes_running
The number of processes that are running, indicated by the R state code.
Unit: Count
79
processes_sleeping
The number of processes that are sleeping, indicated by the S state code.
Unit: Count
80
processes_stopped
The number of processes that are stopped, indicated by the T state code.
Unit: Count
81
processes_total
The total number of processes on the instance.
Unit: Count
82
processes_total_threads
The total number of threads making up the processes. This metric is available only on Linux instances.
This metric is not collected on macOS computers.
Unit: Count
83
processes_wait
The number of processes that are paging, indicated by the W state code on FreeBSD instances. This metric is available only on FreeBSD instances, and is not available on Linux, Windows Server, or macOS instances.
Unit: Count
84
processes_zombies
The number of zombie processes, indicated by the Z state code.
Unit: Count
85
swap_free
The amount of swap space that isn't being used.
Unit: Bytes
86
swap_used
The amount of swap space currently in use.
Unit: Bytes
87
swap_used_percent
The percentage of swap space currently in use.
Unit: Percent
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