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ElastiCache Enhanced Monitoring for CloudWatch Metrics

Overview

Coralogix offers ElastiCache enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS Metrics from CloudWatch using the Amazon ECS API to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to resroucegrouptagging API and adds all the new metrics and tags that are specified in this document under Collected data.

Prerequisites

• AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration with version 0.5.0 or higher.
• Policy permissions used for this integration:
• elasitcache:DescribeCacheClusters
• elasticache:ListResourceTags

Configuration

• ElastiCacheEnhancedMonitoring toggle in the AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration configuration

Collected data

Metrics

Metric Name	Dimensions	Description
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_AllocatedVCPU	CacheClusterId	container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_AllocatedMemory	CacheClusterId	container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_NumNodes	CacheClusterId	container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Cluster_Status	CacheClusterId	container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ElastiCache_Node_Status	CacheClusterId, CacheNodeId	cluster node metric

Tags

• CacheNodeType - For example cache.r6g.2xlarge, cache.m6g.8xlarge, etc.
• Engine - The name of the cache engine (memcached or redis) to be used for elasti-cache cluster.
• EngineVersion - The version of the cache engine that is used in elasti-cache cluster.
• CacheNodeId - The cache node identifier. A node ID is a numeric identifier (0001, 0002, etc.).

Support

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