Telegraf Agent - AWS Services Metrics

Frank7802 · September 1, 2022, 2:14pm

Hi Guys,

Im using the cloudwatch plugin to pull metrics from the various AWS services, RDS, Elasticache, ELB, ApplicationELB, S3 and EBS. The costs involved are quite steep for interval 5m’s > ratelimit 25 and then ofcourse quite a few metrics per Service. I do have a way to get the metrics for RDS and Elasticache Redis from the endpoints, any other suggestions on getting metrics from these AWS services but not using the cloudwatch plugin?

Anaisdg · September 6, 2022, 7:07pm

Hello @Frank7802,
Welcome!
I’m not sure I understand why you don’t want to use the cloudwatch plugin?
Can you explain it further? It costs money to write the data to an InfluxCloud account or query the metrics from cloudwatch?
You can use the http plugin:

github.com

influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/http/README.md

# HTTP Input Plugin

The HTTP input plugin collects metrics from one or more HTTP(S) endpoints.  The
endpoint should have metrics formatted in one of the supported [input data
formats](../../../docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md).  Each data format has its own
unique set of configuration options which can be added to the input
configuration.

## Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support
additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to
modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc.
See the [CONFIGURATION.md][CONFIGURATION.md] for more details.

[CONFIGURATION.md]: ../../../docs/CONFIGURATION.md#plugins

## Configuration

```toml @sample.conf

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Frank7802 · September 14, 2022, 5:15am

I was using the cloudwatch plugin, collecting metrics GMD every 5mins, there are costs involved for getting metrics right.

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