aws-custom-metrics

What?

Create metrics for and send metric data for disk space utilization and memory utilization of AWS EC2 instances running Linux

How?

It retrieves the:

1. Instance id from the instance metadata
2. memory utilization from /proc/meminfo file
3. disk space utilization information from df -h output

Requirements

• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.x
• Boto3 package

Usage

1. Check the current python version

python -V

2. Check Boto 3 is installed

python -m boto3

• Above command should give an error like below

3. Clone the repo in your local directory
4. Copy the contents to home directory of current user
5. Add the following entry in crontab:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/python/executable /home/[username]/customMetrics.py

Resources

1. How to add a cron job
2. How to clone a github repo
3. Boto 3 documentation