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 Elastic Block Storage performance statistics as supplied by CloudWatch. According to Amazon, the minimum polling interval is 5m.
@Stuart Weenig - Is there any solution to solve this thing?
Rakzskull
Posted 3 years ago·Last reply 3 years ago
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LM User
·3 years agoI thought that might be the case. Wonder if that could be added to the documentation here: https://www.logicmonitor.com/integrations/amazon-cloudwatch (or somewhere else if there’s a better page explaining it).
Sarah_Terry
·3 years agoEBS 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.
LM User
·3 years agoI don’t know very much about the cloudwatch collection method. However, it may be as simple as changing the poll rate on that datasource from the default 5 minutes to 1 minute. I don’t know if there are ramifications of that like rate limiting etc.