cloudwatch-agent-sucks

ec2-memory-cloudwatch.sh

#!/bin/bash                                                                     

# set -x                                                                        

inst_id=$(ec2metadata --instance-id)
while :
do
used_megs=$(free --mega | awk 'NR!=1 {print $3}' | head -1)
aws cloudwatch put-metric-data \
    --region us-west-2 \
    --namespace gg \
    --metric-name mem5 \
    --dimensions InstanceId=${inst_id},Bar=mem5 \
    --unit "Megabytes" \
    --value $used_megs
# echo Free $free_megs M                                                        
sleep 60
done