How to Monitor Memory and Disk Metrics for Amazon EC2 Linux Instance

1. How do you monitor the memory usage in your EC2 instance?
2. How do I check memory on AWS EC2?
3. How do I monitor EC2 instances?
4. How do I monitor memory and disk metrics for Amazon EC2 Windows instance?

How do you monitor the memory usage in your EC2 instance?

The recommended way to monitor memory usage is to create a custom Cloudwatch metric by using your own monitoring scripts on your instances. AWS have published documentation on how to achieve this on Linux instances with a set of (unsupported) scripts.

How do I check memory on AWS EC2?

Monitor with CloudWatch

Navigate to CloudWatch in AWS and click on “Metrics” on the left. Then click on “System/Linux” under Custom Namespaces. From here, navigate into both “Filesystem, InstanceId, MountPath” and “InstanceId”, and tick off the available metrics in each.

How do I monitor EC2 instances?

Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .

1. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.
2. Select the instance and choose Actions, Monitoring, Manage detailed monitoring.
3. On the Detailed monitoring detail page, for Detailed monitoring, select the Enable check box.
4. Choose Save.

How do I monitor memory and disk metrics for Amazon EC2 Windows instance?

Select the EC2 instance and click on Actions>Instance Settings>Attach/Replace IAM role. Then select the IAM role with the required permissions and click Apply (see example below). Now you should see the Role attached to the EC2 instance (see CloudWatch_Turbonomic in the example below).