AWS Health Monitoring default checks and policies

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  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 3 minutes de lecture

    • Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for AWS monitoring.

    Tableau 1. AWS Metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Usage example
    Metric aws.metrics-ec2 Returns metrics of all EC2 instances in a AWS Datacenter.

    metrics-ec2.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter EC2 instances by tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of instances to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-ec2.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:Name,values:[Instance1,Instance2]}"

    Provide the filter string along with double quotes ("") around the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-ebs Returns metrics of all EBS volumes in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-ebs.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter EBS Volumes by Tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of volumes to fetch metrics parallelly. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-ebs.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:Name,values:[Volume1,Volume2]}"

    Provide filter string along with double quotes ("") for the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-s3 Returns metrics of all S3 buckets in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-s3.rb (options)

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of S3 buckets to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-s3.rb -b 5

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-rds Returns metrics of all RDS buckets in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-rds.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter RDS Instances by tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    		 ./metrics-rds.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:engine,values:[MariaDB]}"

    Provide the filter string with double quotes ("") around the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-classic-elb Returns metrics of all classic elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains one of the comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t classic -e "classic,itom,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-network-elb Returns metrics of all network elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains any of the comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t network -e "vpc,itom,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.

    Do not change the command prefix.
    Metric aws.metrics-application-elb Returns metrics of all application elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains any one of the string from comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t application -e "classic,app,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.

    Do not change the command prefix.
    Metric aws.metrics-ec2-count Returns count of EC2 instances by instance_type or status in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-ec2-count.rb (options)

    -s, --scheme SCHEME Metric naming scheme, text to prepend to metric. Default: aws.ec2

    -t, --type METRIC type Count by type: status, instance. Default: instance

    ./metrics-ec2-count.rb -t status

    ./metrics-ec2-count.rb -t status -s metric.aws.ec2
    Tableau 2. AWS DynamoDB metrics
    Type Check Description Usage Command
    Metric aws.metrics-dynamodb Monitors the health of DynamoDB tables in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the DynamoDB table (cmdb_ci_dynamodb_table)

    e, --exclude_tb EXCLUDE_TB

    Exclude metrics from tables whose name contains a string from comma separated strings.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of tables to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-dynamodb.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_exclude_tb}} -f {{.labels.params_exclude_tb}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}
    Tableau 3. AWS EC2 metrics
    Type Check Description Usage Command
    Metric aws.metrics-ecs-cluster Monitors ECS clusters in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the AWS ECS Cluster CI type (cmdb_ci_cloud_ecs_cluster)

    -F, --filter FILTER

    String representation of the filter to filter ECS clusters by tags.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of clusters to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-ecs-cluster.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_filter}} -f {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}
    Metric aws.metrics-ecs-service Monitors ECS services in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the AWS ECS Service CI type (cmdb_ci_cloud_ecs_service)

    -F, --filter FILTER

    String representation of the filter to filter ECS clusters by tags.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of clusters to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-ecs-service.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_filter}} -f {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}