AWS elb metricset

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Elastic Load Balancing publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch for your load balancers and your back-end instances. This aws elb metricset collects these Cloudwatch metrics for monitoring purposes.

Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS ELB metrics.

 ec2:DescribeRegions cloudwatch:GetMetricData cloudwatch:ListMetrics tag:getResources sts:GetCallerIdentity iam:ListAccountAliases 

The aws elb metricset comes with a predefined dashboard for classic ELB. For example:

 - module: aws period: 300s metricsets: - elb access_key_id: '${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:""}' secret_access_key: '${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:""}' session_token: '${AWS_SESSION_TOKEN:""}' # This module uses the aws cloudwatch metricset, all # the options for this metricset are also available here. 

elb metricset collects Cloudwatch metrics from classic ELB, application ELB and network ELB.

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

 { "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z", "aws": { "cloudwatch": { "namespace": "AWS/ELB" }, "dimensions": { "Namespace": "AWS" }, "elb": { "metrics": { "HealthyHostCount": { "max": 2 }, "Latency": { "avg": 0.000005960464477539062 }, "RequestCount": { "sum": 1 }, "SurgeQueueLength": { "max": 1 }, "UnHealthyHostCount": { "max": 0 } } } }, "cloud": { "account": { "id": "428152502467", "name": "elastic-beats" }, "provider": "aws", "region": "us-east-1" }, "event": { "dataset": "aws.elb", "duration": 115000, "module": "aws" }, "metricset": { "name": "elb", "period": 10000 }, "service": { "type": "aws" } }