Configuring the Amazon Web Services monitor type

Specify the full path of JRE directory on the PATROL Agent server.

Account Name

Specify the name that identifies this set of AWS account monitoring configuration. This name is used as the instance name of the top level container.

Note: Special characters @ / \ are not supported in this field.

Access Key

Specify the access key for the account provided by Amazon Web Services account user.

Secret Key

Specify the secret key for the account provided by Amazon Web Services account user.

Click this tab to enable/disable the services.

Select the check box to enable the monitoring of DynamoDB.

Specify a unique configuration label to identify the set of Custom Metric Configuration. This configuration label is used as an instance name of namespace. Special characters like /, @, &, and \ are not allowed

For example: MyCustomMetric, My_CustomMetric

Specify the name of AWS Namespace from which the custom metrics are monitored.

For example: /System/mynamespace

Select the statistics type from the following to bring performance data of custom metrics:

• Average
• Sum
• Minimum
• Maximum

Specify the period in minutes. A period is the length of time associated with a specific Amazon CloudWatch statistic.
Each statistic represents an aggregation of the metrics data collected for a specified period.

Specify the metric name that you want to exclude from monitoring. The metric name should match with the metric name in AWS management console or a regex matching one or more metric names.
For example: Metric.* or Metric1|Metric2

Select Include to monitor only the regions mentioned in the Regions field below.

Select Exclude to exclude the regions mentioned in the Regions field below.

Specify the regions that you want to include or exclude from monitoring. The following is the format for specifying regions:

• us-east-1
• us-west-2
• us-east-2

Use comma (,) only to separate the regions.

Select Include to monitor only the EC2 tags mentioned in the EC2 Tag Filter field below.

Select Exclude to exclude the EC2 tags mentioned in the EC2 Tag Filter field below.

Specify the EC2 tags that you want to include or exclude from monitoring. The following is the format for EC2 tags:

• TagKey=TagValue

Use comma (,) only to separate the tags.

Select Include to monitor only the Lambda functions mentioned in the Lambda function filter.

Select Exclude to exclude the Lambda functions mentioned in the Lambda function filter.

Specify the lambda function name that you want to include or exclude from monitoring. Use comma (,) only to separate the functions.

It supports regex pattern.

Select this check box to enable lambda function log monitoring for custom metrics.

Add to List

Click this option to add the account to the list of monitored accounts.

Modify Selection

Click this option to save the changes you made in the configuration details for the selected account. After doing this, click Update to reflect your changes under the list of Defined Monitor Types and Attributes on the Monitor Configuration tab.

This option is only available when you select an existing policy and click Edit on the Monitor Configuration tab.

Remove from List

Click this option to remove the account from the list of monitored accounts.

This option is only available when you select an existing policy and click Edit or Delete on the Monitor Configuration tab.

Select the check-box to enable debug. This will create log files at <PATROL_HOME>/pll directory on the PATROL Agent server.

For example:

RemoteCollector-<PATROL_AGENT_PORT>-aws.log

Add

Click this option to add the monitor type under the list of Defined Monitor Types and Attributes on the Monitor Configuration tab

Close 

Click this option to close the Add Monitor Types dialog box without saving any changes

Reset

Click this option to clear off your configuration and revert to default settings