AWS CloudMetrics Configuration

AWS CloudMetrics setting

The FusionReactor AWS CloudWatch Metrics system requires some configuration prior to use.  

This can be done by navigating to Metrics > AWS CloudWatch Metrics and clicking on the Configure button at the top of the page.

Name	Value
AWS Access Key	The AWS Access Key of a user or IAM identity under which metrics will be pushed to CloudWatch.
AWS Secret Key	The AWS Secret Key corresponding to the Access Key above.
AWS Region	The AWS region to which the CloudWatch metrics should be pushed.
AWS Namespace	The CloudWatch Namespace under which metrics will be named. See note below.
AWS Dimensions	The default set of AWS dimensions which will be applied in the AWS CloudMetrics page.
Send Stale Data	Controls whether stale datapoint (JMX metrics for which no new data has been received in the last minute) are sent using their old value.
AWS CloudWatch Active	Master enablement for the metrics shipping system.

Troubleshooting

In case of problems, in the first instance, ensure the configuration form is correctly filled in.  In particular any trailing spaces must be removed.

The user or IAM identity or role identified by the AWS Access Key must have permissions to write AWS CloudWatch metric data.  This requires the following AWS permission:

    {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Sid": "Stmt1493894646000",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
                ],
                "Resource": [
                    "*"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }

Learn more

For further information go to log file plugin-fusionreactor-cloudwatch-plugin-0.log.

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