!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a [Amazon Web Service] that provides real-time [monitoring] to Amazon's [EC2] on their [resource] utilization such as [CPU], [disk], [network] and replica lag for [RDS] Database replicas.


[{$pagename}] does not provide any [memory], [Store], or load average metrics without running additional software on the instance. [{$pagename}] provides a [{$pagename}] Agent for [Microsoft Windows] and [Linux] [Operating Systems] included [disk] and available [memory], dead link.

[{$pagename}] [data] is aggregated and provided through AWS management console. [{$pagename}] can also be accessed through command line tools and Web API's, if the customer desires to monitor their [EC2] resources through their enterprise monitoring software. Amazon provides an [API] which allows to operate on CloudWatch alarms.

The [metrics] collected by Amazon CloudWatch enables the auto-scaling feature to dynamically add or remove [EC2] instances. Customers are charged by the number of monitoring instances.

[{$pagename}] accepts custom [metrics] that can be submitted programmatically via [Web Services] [API] and then monitored the same way as all other internal metrics, including setting up the alarms for them.

[{$pagename}] has the following Components:
* [Metrics]
* Alarms ([Action])
* [Events]
* [Dashboards]

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* [#1] - [Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#Amazon_CloudWatch|Wikipedia:Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#Amazon_CloudWatch|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2019-07-04