Amazon Monitors 

Prerequisites for monitoring Amazon CloudWatch: You can use the Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring scripts for Microsoft Windows Server to monitor memory and disk performance counters on Amazon EC2 Windows instances. Refer Prerequisites Section.

To create a new Amazon monitor, follow the steps given below:

1. Click on New Monitor link.

2. Select Amazon under Cloud Apps category.

3. Specify the Display Name of the Amazon server

4. Enter the Access Key Id of the AWS for accessing the AWS through the API. The access key has 20 alpha-numeric characters.

5. Enter the Secret Access Key of the AWS. The secret key should be 40 alpha-numeric characters long.

6. Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.

7. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.

8. Choose the Monitor Group with which you want to associate the Amazon monitor to, from the combo box (optional). You can choose multiple groups to associate your monitor.

9. Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Amazon server from the network and starts monitoring it.

See Also

Monitor Information - Amazon Monitor | Create Other New Monitors