{"id":3007,"date":"2019-08-31T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=3007"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T11:08:46","slug":"cloudwatch-metrics-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-certified-security-specialty\/cloudwatch-metrics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CloudWatch Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cloudwatch metric<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is a group of data points which are arranged as per time and sent to CloudWatch.<\/li><li>To illustrate, consider it as a variable whose value changes over time and has to be monitored.<\/li><li>Data points are generated by all AWS services<\/li><li>AWS services send metrics to CloudWatch<\/li><li>Can send custom metrics to CloudWatch also<\/li><li>Can add data points in any order or at any rate<\/li><li>Retrieve statistics about data points as an ordered set of time-series data.<\/li><li>Metrics are specific to a Region in which were created<\/li><li>Metrics cannot be deleted,<\/li><li>By default all data point expire automatically, after 15 months if no new data is added.<\/li><li>They expire on a rolling basis; as new data points come in, data older than 15 months is dropped.<\/li><li>Metrics are defined uniquely by, specific\n<ul>\n<li>name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>namespace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>zero or more dimensions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Each data point in a metric has a time stamp, and (optionally) a unit of measure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Metrics Time Stamps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Each metric data point must be associated with a time stamp.<\/li><li>The range of time stamp value can be of past two weeks or future two hours<\/li><li>If no time stamp is given, CloudWatch creates a time stamp on time data point was received.<\/li><li>Time stamps are dateTime objects<\/li><li>Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is recommended<\/li><li>Time values are specified in UTC, in CloudWatch<\/li><li>Metrics are checked by CloudWatch alarms with current time specified in UTC.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Metrics Retention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CloudWatch retains metric data as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For a period &lt;60 seconds, available for 3 hours. Also called as high-resolution custom metrics.<\/li><li>For a period of 60 seconds\/1 minute, available for 15 days<\/li><li>For a period of 300 seconds\/5 minute, available for 63 days<\/li><li>For a period of 3600 seconds\/1 hour, available for 455 days (15 months)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Metrics Units<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Each statistic has a unit of measure.<\/li><li>Few example metric units are\n<ul>\n<li>Bytes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seconds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Count<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>custom metric&nbsp; creation needs unit to be specified<\/li><li>If not specified, CloudWatch uses None as the unit.<\/li><li>No significance is given to a unit by CloudWatch internally<\/li><li>unit of measure are aggregated separately&nbsp; Metric data points that specify a unit of measure are aggregated separately.<\/li><li>Statistics without specifying a unit, CloudWatch aggregates all data points of the same unit together.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Metrics Periods<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Period refers to duration of time linked with a specific CloudWatch statistic.<\/li><li>Periods defined in seconds, and valid values for period are 1, 5, 10, 30, or any multiple of 60.<\/li><li>For period of six minutes, use 360 as the period value.<\/li><li>varying period values, can help in see changes in data aggregation<\/li><li>sub-minute periods are supported for those custom metrics having storage resolution of 1 second<\/li><li>Retrieval of statistics needs\n<ul>\n<li>Period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>start time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>end time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>The default values for the start time and end time get you the last hour&#8217;s worth of statistics.<\/li><li>For statistics aggregated over the entire hour, specify a period of 3600.<\/li><li>aggregated statistics are stamped with the time corresponding to the beginning of the period.<\/li><li>Periods are also important for CloudWatch alarms.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Metrics Aggregation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CloudWatch aggregates statistics as per specified period length<\/li><li>publish as many data points as needed with same or similar time stamps.<\/li><li>CloudWatch aggregates them as per specified period length.<\/li><li>CloudWatch does not aggregate data across Regions.<\/li><li>pre-aggregated dataset (statistic set ) should be added in case of large datasets<\/li><li>With statistic sets, gives Min, Max, Sum, and SampleCount for a number of data points.<\/li><li>No differentiation is done by CloudWatch on basis of source of metric.<\/li><li>metric with namespace and dimensions is treated as single metric, even if having different sources<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CloudWatch Percentiles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A percentile indicates the relative standing of a value in a dataset.<\/li><li>example, the 95th percentile means that 95 percent of the data is lower than this value and 5 percent of the data is higher than this value.<\/li><li>Used to isolate anomalies.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloudwatch metric Is a group of data points which are arranged as per time and sent to CloudWatch. 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