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Rakzskull's avatar
Rakzskull
2 years ago

Is it feasible to get data for EBS from CloudWatch metrics at every minute interval?

I'm seeking for data that will reproduce CloudWatch data in LM at every minute frequency, however I'm only getting data every 5 minutes.  Furthermore noted in the global definition is -Gathers Elast...
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Sarah_Terry's avatar
Sarah_Terry
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2 years ago

EBS CloudWatch metrics are available at 1 minute intervals (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html), so you can just change the polling interval in LM to 1 minute. 

The reason we default to 5 mins is to optimize CloudWatch costs out of the box -- the 1 minute polling will get you more granular data (and alerts), but it will add more to your CloudWatch bill as well.