AWS CloudWatch custom metrics

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### AWS scripts
These look trivial
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/mon-scripts-perl.html
http://aws.amazon.com/code/8720044071969977


### Diamond
Diamond is fairly popular and it looks like there's a built in way for Diamond to send metrics to AWS CloudWatch so maybe this is fairly easy
https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond
https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond/wiki/handler-cloudwatchHandler
http://gistflow.com/posts/954-custom-aws-cloudwatch-metrics-with-boto


### Publishing metrics to CloudWatch
This looks fairly easy
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/working_with_metrics.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/PublishMetrics.html


### Collectd
Collectd is popular but I'm not sure how easy it is to use with AWS CloudWatch.
You could try to use Collectd to collect the system info and send it straight to CloudWatch. I can't tell if this is easy or not. It looks like there may not be a Collectd CloudWatch plugin so some kind of script may be required to get the events from Collectd into Cloudwatch
https://github.com/cityindex/logsearch/issues/91


### Riemann
This is complicated. We probably don't want to do this on the first iteration.
You could try to use Riemann with CloudWatch
In this case I think you have to use something like collectd > riemann > cloudwatch

You could also try to skip CloudWatch and try something like collectd > riemann. However, if we skip CloudWatch we'll want to add what we have with CloudWatch now to Riemann IOW we'd want to collect CPU, RAM, etc. info and we'd want to be able to display that on graphs.

http://riemann.io/index.html
https://github.com/aphyr/riemann

Hi,

FYI, I made this POC today :)

https://github.com/Poil/collectd_to_cloudwatch