Cloudwatch-Memory-Metric

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		            Cloudwatch RAM Mointoring
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----*** Create IAM role ***----

* Go to IAM 

* Create Role

* Under permission - tick - CloudwatchFullAccess

* Attach role to the EC2 instance


----*** Configure Monitoring Script ***----


$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install unzip

$ sudo apt-get install libwww-perl libdatetime-perl

$ curl https://aws-cloudwatch.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip -O

$ unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip && \
rm CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.2.zip && \
cd aws-scripts-mon


## Test the script

$ ./mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --verify --verbose


## Send metric to cloudwatch

$ ./mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-used-incl-cache-buff --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail


## Scheduling the process of sending metrics

$ crontab -e

*/5 * * * * ~/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-used-incl-cache-buff --mem-util --disk-space-util --disk-path=/ --from-cron


## Go on CloudWatch and check for metrics