telegraf/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/README.md

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# Amazon CloudWatch Statistics Input
This plugin will pull Metric Statistics from Amazon CloudWatch.
### Amazon Authentication
This plugin uses a credential chain for Authentication with the CloudWatch
API endpoint. In the following order the plugin will attempt to authenticate.
1. Assumed credentials via STS if `role_arn` attribute is specified (source credentials are evaluated from subsequent rules)
2. Explicit credentials from `access_key`, `secret_key`, and `token` attributes
3. Shared profile from `profile` attribute
4. [Environment Variables](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk#environment-variables)
5. [Shared Credentials](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk#shared-credentials-file)
6. [EC2 Instance Profile](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html)
### Configuration:
```toml
[[inputs.cloudwatch]]
## Amazon Region (required)
region = 'us-east-1'
## Requested CloudWatch aggregation Period (required - must be a multiple of 60s)
period = '1m'
## Collection Delay (required - must account for metrics availability via CloudWatch API)
delay = '1m'
## Override global run interval (optional - defaults to global interval)
## Recomended: use metric 'interval' that is a multiple of 'period' to avoid
## gaps or overlap in pulled data
interval = '1m'
## Metric Statistic Namespace (required)
namespace = 'AWS/ELB'
## Maximum requests per second. Note that the global default AWS rate limit is
## 10 reqs/sec, so if you define multiple namespaces, these should add up to a
## maximum of 10.
ratelimit = 10
## Metrics to Pull (optional)
## Defaults to all Metrics in Namespace if nothing is provided
## Refreshes Namespace available metrics every 1h
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics]]
names = ['Latency', 'RequestCount']
## Dimension filters for Metric (optional)
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
name = 'LoadBalancerName'
value = 'p-example'
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
name = 'AvailabilityZone'
value = '*'
```
#### Requirements and Terminology
Plugin Configuration utilizes [CloudWatch concepts](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html) and access pattern to allow monitoring of any CloudWatch Metric.
- `region` must be a valid AWS [Region](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchRegions) value
- `period` must be a valid CloudWatch [Period](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchPeriods) value
- `namespace` must be a valid CloudWatch [Namespace](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Namespace) value
- `names` must be valid CloudWatch [Metric](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Metric) names
- `dimensions` must be valid CloudWatch [Dimension](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Dimension) name/value pairs
Omitting or specifying a value of `'*'` for a dimension value configures all available metrics that contain a dimension with the specified name
to be retrieved. If specifying >1 dimension, then the metric must contain *all* the configured dimensions where the the value of the
wildcard dimension is ignored.
Example:
```
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics]]
names = ['Latency']
## Dimension filters for Metric (optional)
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
name = 'LoadBalancerName'
value = 'p-example'
[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
name = 'AvailabilityZone'
value = '*'
```
If the following ELBs are available:
- name: `p-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1a`
- name: `p-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1b`
- name: `q-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1a`
- name: `q-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1b`
Then 2 metrics will be output:
- name: `p-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1a`
- name: `p-example`, availabilityZone: `us-east-1b`
If the `AvailabilityZone` wildcard dimension was omitted, then a single metric (name: `p-example`)
would be exported containing the aggregate values of the ELB across availability zones.
#### Restrictions and Limitations
- CloudWatch metrics are not available instantly via the CloudWatch API. You should adjust your collection `delay` to account for this lag in metrics availability based on your [monitoring subscription level](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-cloudwatch-new.html)
- CloudWatch API usage incurs cost - see [GetMetricStatistics Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/)
### Measurements & Fields:
Each CloudWatch Namespace monitored records a measurement with fields for each available Metric Statistic
Namespace and Metrics are represented in [snake case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case)
- cloudwatch_{namespace}
- {metric}_sum (metric Sum value)
- {metric}_average (metric Average value)
- {metric}_minimum (metric Minimum value)
- {metric}_maximum (metric Maximum value)
- {metric}_sample_count (metric SampleCount value)
### Tags:
Each measurement is tagged with the following identifiers to uniquely identify the associated metric
Tag Dimension names are represented in [snake case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case)
- All measurements have the following tags:
- region (CloudWatch Region)
- unit (CloudWatch Metric Unit)
- {dimension-name} (Cloudwatch Dimension value - one for each metric dimension)
### Example Output:
```
$ ./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter cloudwatch -test
> cloudwatch_aws_elb,load_balancer_name=p-example,region=us-east-1,unit=seconds latency_average=0.004810798017284538,latency_maximum=0.1100282669067383,latency_minimum=0.0006084442138671875,latency_sample_count=4029,latency_sum=19.382705211639404 1459542420000000000
```