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ElastiCache enhanced monitoring for CloudWatch metrics

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Overview

Coralogix offers ElastiCache enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS Metrics from CloudWatch using the Amazon ECS API to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to resroucegrouptagging API and adds all the new metrics and tags that are specified in this document under Collected data.

Prerequisites

  • AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration with version 0.5.0 or higher.
  • Policy permissions used for this integration:
  • elasitcache:DescribeCacheClusters
  • elasticache:ListResourceTags

Configuration

Collected data

Metrics

Metric NameDimensionsDescription
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_AllocatedVCPUCacheClusterIdcontainer instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_AllocatedMemoryCacheClusterIdcontainer instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_NumNodesCacheClusterIdcontainer instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_StatusCacheClusterIdcontainer instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Node_StatusCacheClusterId, CacheNodeIdcluster node metric

Tags

  • CacheNodeType - For example cache.r6g.2xlarge, cache.m6g.8xlarge, etc.
  • Engine - The name of the cache engine (memcached or redis) to be used for elasti-cache cluster.
  • EngineVersion - The version of the cache engine that is used in elasti-cache cluster.
  • CacheNodeId - The cache node identifier. A node ID is a numeric identifier (0001, 0002, etc.).
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