- AWS Console > Intance > Action
- Attach IAM role to your instance.
- Attach policy > CloudWatchFullAccess + AmazonSSMFullAccess.
- Start Windows instance.
- Configure CloudWatch.json based on your requirement before Ec2Config service is started.
- Configure your region i.e. if your instance at us-web-2b set to
us-west-2. - Add your IAM access key and secret key under CloudWatch component.
- Lastly, define the flow you want. i.e.
PerformanceCounter,CloudWatch.
- Start Ec2Config service under services.
- Done.
Now you can wait for 15 mins to sync the log to CloudWatch and you now can create any type of alarm alert you want.
- Action > CloudWatch
- Pick Windows/Default metrics under available Metrics.
- Add alarm.
- Done.
Enjoy :-)
see Amazon Simple Notification Service Pricing
C:\Program Files\Amazon\Ec2ConfigService\Settings\AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.json
PollInterval in format HH:MM:SS.
{
"EngineConfiguration": {
"PollInterval": "00:00:15",
"Components": [
{
"Id": "ApplicationEventLog",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.EventLog.EventLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogName": "Application",
"Levels": "1"
}
},
{
"Id": "SystemEventLog",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.EventLog.EventLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogName": "System",
"Levels": "7"
}
},
{
"Id": "SecurityEventLog",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.EventLog.EventLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogName": "Security",
"Levels": "7"
}
},
{
"Id": "ETW",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.EventLog.EventLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogName": "Microsoft-Windows-WinINet/Analytic",
"Levels": "7"
}
},
{
"Id": "IISLog",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.IisLog.IisLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogDirectoryPath": "C:\\inetpub\\logs\\LogFiles\\W3SVC1"
}
},
{
"Id": "CustomLogs",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.CustomLog.CustomLogInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"LogDirectoryPath": "C:\\CustomLogs\\",
"TimestampFormat": "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss",
"Encoding": "UTF-8",
"Filter": "",
"CultureName": "en-US",
"TimeZoneKind": "Local"
}
},
{
"Id": "PerformanceCounter",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.PerformanceCounterComponent.PerformanceCounterInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"CategoryName": "Memory",
"CounterName": "Available MBytes",
"InstanceName": "",
"MetricName": "Memory",
"Unit": "Megabytes",
"DimensionName": "",
"DimensionValue": ""
}
},
{
"Id": "CloudWatchLogs",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.CloudWatchLogsOutput,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"AccessKey": "",
"SecretKey": "",
"Region": "us-east-1",
"LogGroup": "Default-Log-Group",
"LogStream": "{instance_id}"
}
},
{
"Id": "CloudWatch",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.CloudWatch.CloudWatchOutputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters":
{
"AccessKey": "",
"SecretKey": "",
"Region": "us-east-1",
"NameSpace": "Windows/Default"
}
}
],
"Flows": {
"Flows":
[
"PerformanceCounter,CloudWatch"
]
}
}
}