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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

  1. On the instance, run the following AWS CLI command:
       aws cloudwatch put-metric-data \          --metric-name MemoryUsagePercent \         --namespace CustomMetrics \         --dimensions InstanceId=`curl -s \           http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id` \         --unit Percent \         --value `free | grep Mem | awk '{print $3/$2 * 100.0}'`
  1. Go to the CloudWatch console, and navigate to the Metrics dashboard. Your metric will appear under the namespace CustomMetrics, InstanceId, and the unique ID for the instance, with the metric name MemoryUsagePercent.
It can take up to 15 minutes for a custom metric to appear in the CloudWatch dashboard (although it usually takes less). Even for the built-in metrics, it may take a minute or two for the metric data ...
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