OpsWorks Monitoring

Monitor stacks by

• CloudWatch lists 13 custom metrics for each instance in stack.
• CloudTrail logs every AWS OpsWorks Stacks API call and store data in S3 bucket.
• CloudWatch Logs can monitor stack’s system, application, and custom logs.
• For Linux stacksuse the 13 custom metrics on Monitoring page.
• For Windows stacks, monitor standard EC2 metrics with CloudWatch console.
• The Monitoring page does not shoe Windows metrics.
• The Monitoring page shows metrics for entire stack, a layer, or an instance.

Metrics

• cpu_idle – The percentage of time that the CPU is idle.
• cpu_nice – The percentage of time that the CPU is handling processes with a positive nice value, which have a lower scheduling priority.
• cpu_system – The percentage of time that the CPU is handling system operations.
• cpu_user – The percentage of time that the CPU is handling user operations.
• memory_buffers – The amount of buffered memory.
• memory_cached – The amount of cached memory.
• memory_free – The amount of free memory.
• memory_used – The amount of memory in use.
• load_1 – The load averaged over a one-minute window.
• load_15 – The load averaged over a 15-minute window.
• procs – The number of active processes.

OpsWorks Stacks namespace, and provide metrics for the following dimensions:

• StackId – Average values for a stack.
• LayerId – Average values for a layer.
• InstanceId – Average values for an instance.