awsservice

AWS CloudWatch Metrics

Supported AWS services

• ApplicationELB
• CloudFront
• DynamoDB
• DX
• EBS
• EC2
• EC2AutoScaling
• EC2Spot
• ECS
• EFS
• ElastiCache
• ElasticBeanstalk
• ElasticInterface
• ElasticMapReduce
• ElasticTranscoder
• ELB
• ES
• KMS
• Lambda
• NATGateway
• NetworkELB
• RDS
• Route53
• Route53Resolver
• S3
• SNS
• SQS
• TransitGateway

Installation

1. Create a directory for the install. Suggested: mkdir -p /opt/circonus/cloud-agent
2. Download the latest release
3. Unpack the release in the directory created in first step
4. In this directory, create a config folder. Suggested: mkdir /opt/circonus/cloud-agent/etc/aws.d
5. Auto-create a service specific configuration template in the desired format (yaml, toml, or json). Suggested: sbin/circonus-cloud-agentd --enable-aws --aws-example-conf=yaml > /opt/circonus/cloud-agent/etc/aws.d/aws-config.yaml
   • Note, the id in the template is defaulted to the filename. This should be changed to a name that will be unique across all cloud-agents used in Circonus
   • Add the Circonus api key
   • Add the AWS credentials
   • Update settings for the desired AWS services to be monitored
6. Setup as a system service or run in foreground ensuring that --enable-aws is specified

Options

$  sbin/circonus-cloud-agentd -h
The Circonus Cloud Agent collects metrics from cloud infrastructures and fowards them to Circonus.

Usage:
  circonus-cloud-agent [flags]

Flags:
      --aws-conf-dir string         AWS configuration directory (default "/opt/circonus/cloud-agent/etc/aws.d")
      --aws-example-conf string     Show AWS config (json|toml|yaml) and exit
  -c, --config string               config file (default: circonus-cloud-agent.yaml|.json|.toml)
  -d, --debug                       [ENV: CCA_DEBUG] Enable debug messages
      --enable-aws                  Enable AWS metric collection client
  -h, --help                        help for circonus-cloud-agent
      --log-level string            [ENV: CCA_LOG_LEVEL] Log level [(panic|fatal|error|warn|info|debug|disabled)] (default "info")
      --log-pretty                  [ENV: CCA_LOG_PRETTY] Output formatted/colored log lines [ignored on windows]
  -V, --version                     Show version and exit

Configuration

AWS

NOTE: the agent can run in a shared mode with multiple sets of credentials or a local mode where the credentials are kept in an external location and roles are used to identify which credentials to use.

1. Create an IAM group e.g. circonus-cloud-agent (if one does not already exist) with the following permissions:
   1. Required: CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess - to retrieve metrics
   2. Optional: AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess - to get list of instances, if EC2 metrics are desired
   3. Optional: AmazonElastiCacheReadOnlyAccess - to get list of cache clusters, if ElastiCache metrics are desired
2. Create an IAM user e.g. circonus-cloud-agent (ensure it is a member of the aforementioned group), make a note of the Access Key Credentials (access key id and secret access key or role and save credentials file locally where circonus-cloud-agent will run, ensure it is accessible by whatever user the circonus-cloud-agent is configured to run as.)

Circonus

1. Use Circonus UI to create or identify an API Token to use
2. Add the key to the config file under the circonus section

AWS settings

For per-configuration file credentials (shared):

• access_key_id
• secret_access_key

or, for credentials in a local file:

• role
• credentials_file

Example configuration

Minimum configuration (for EC2 service):

Credentials in configuration file:

---

id: ...
aws:
  access_key_id: ...
  secret_access_key: ...
circonus:
  key: ...
period: basic
regions:
    - name: us-east-1
      services:
          - namespace: aws/EC2
            disabled: false

Shared credentials using roles:

---

id: ...
aws:
  role: ...
  credentials_file: ...
circonus:
  key: ...
period: basic
regions:
    - name: us-east-1
      services:
          - namespace: aws/EC2
            disabled: false