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Naveenkumar
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2 years ago

Does cloud watch API calls bound to Data Sources or Data points?

Hi All, I have an EC2 instance in my aws account. The instance is assigned to local collector in the same subnet to collect metrics. At the same time the Cloud watch data sources are also continue...
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Naveenkumar
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2 years ago

As per the above document, Total Number of Metrics for 1 EC2 is 95,404 for 11 data points, if i have unchecked 5/6 datapoints the total metrics to be collected will be reduced to around 45-50k requests, and the cost would also be proportional to number of request, so the cost should be around $0.40 - $0.60. Correct me if i’m wrong. @Michael Raymond 

AWS Service Number of Datapoints Polling Interval (min) Total Number of Metrics Request per Month
(60 min/hour, 24 hours/day, 30 days/month)		 CloudWatch Charge Rate Estimated Additional Cost per Resource per Month

EC2

 11 5 95,404 $0.01 per 1,000 metrics requested $0.95