Monitoring EC2 Memory Usage and Making it Available via CloudWatch Logs

Monitoring the memory usage of your Amazon EC2 instances is crucial for maintaining the health and performance of your applications. Unfortunately, by default, Amazon CloudWatch only provides metrics for CPU utilization, disk I/O, and network I/O. Memory usage metrics aren’t offered out of the box. However, you can monitor memory usage using a custom script to collect and send memory metrics to CloudWatch.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to set up memory monitoring for your EC2 instances and make it available via CloudWatch Logs.

 

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