Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) metrics

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability SaaS to collect this service's data. See Add an AWS cloud account. CloudWatch metrics must also be enabled for this service in the AWS Console for the metric data to be available.

Depending on the subscription pricing tier of your AWS account or its services, additional metrics may be available for this entity. To collect additional AWS metrics, enable detailed monitoring for your instances.

Many of the collected metrics from AWS EC2 entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the AWS EC2 metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.EC2 in the search box.

Metric Units Description
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health state. The health state provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health state is determined based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health state is displayed as one of the following four states and colors: Good, Moderate, Bad, or Unknown. You can determine the impact of the alerts, anomalies, and statuses on the health of an entity type by going to Settings > Health, and selecting a specific entity type. You can also customize the impact.

To view the health of AWS EC2 and other host type entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select host.
AWS.EC2.CPUCreditBalance Count

For T2 Instances. The number of CPU credits available for the instance to burst beyond its base CPU utilization. Credits are stored in the credit balance after they are earned and removed from the credit balance after they expire. Credits expire 24 hours after they are earned.

AWS.EC2.CPUCreditUsage Count

For T2 Instances. The number of CPU credits consumed by the instance. One CPU credit equals one vCPU running at 100% utilization for one minute or an equivalent combination of vCPUs, utilization, and time (for example, one vCPU running at 50% utilization for two minutes or two vCPUs running at 25% utilization for two minutes).

AWS.EC2.CPUSurplusCreditBalance Count

The number of CPU credits that an instance has accumulated beyond its baseline performance level.

AWS.EC2.CPUSurplusCreditsCharged Count

The number of CPU credits that have been consumed above the baseline performance level.

AWS.EC2.CPUUtilization Percent (%)

The percentage of allocated EC2 compute units that are currently in use on the instance. This metric identifies the processing power required to run an application upon a selected instance.

AWS.EC2.DedicatedHostCPUUtilization Percent (%)

The percentage of CPU utilization on a dedicated host. It helps in monitoring the overall CPU usage of instances running on a dedicated host.
AWS.EC2.DiskIOps

The number of read and write operations per second (IOPS) on the instance store volumes of an EC2 instance.

AWS.EC2.DiskReadBytes bytes

Bytes read from all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application reads from the hard disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application.

AWS.EC2.DiskReadOps Count

Completed read operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time.

AWS.EC2.DiskWriteBytes bytes

Bytes written to all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application writes onto the hard disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application.

AWS.EC2.DiskWriteOps Count

Completed write operations to all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time.

AWS.EC2.EBSByteBalance Percent (%)

The percentage of throughput credits remaining in the burst bucket for your EBS volumes.

AWS.EC2.EBSIOBalance Percent (%)

The percentage of I/O credits remaining in the burst bucket for your EBS volumes.

AWS.EC2.EBSReadBytes bytes

The total number of bytes read from your EBS volumes per second.

AWS.EC2.EBSReadOps Count

The total number of read operations (I/O operations) performed on your EBS volumes per second.

AWS.EC2.EBSWriteBytes bytes

The total number of bytes written to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes per second.
AWS.EC2.EBSWriteOps Count

The total number of write operations (I/O operations) performed on EBS volumes per second.

AWS.EC2.MetadataNoToken Count

The number of requests to the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) that did not include a token.

AWS.EC2.MetadataNoTokenRejected Count The number of requests to the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) that were rejected because they did not include a token.
AWS.EC2.NetworkIO bps

The total network input/output (I/O) operations per second for an EC2 instance.

AWS.EC2.NetworkIn bytes

The number of bytes received on all network interfaces by the instance. This metric identifies the volume of incoming network traffic to a single instance.

AWS.EC2.NetworkOut bytes

The number of bytes sent out on all network interfaces by the instance. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing network traffic from a single instance.

AWS.EC2.NetworkPacketsIn Count

The number of packets received on all network interfaces by the instance. This metric identifies the volume of incoming traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance. This metric is available for basic monitoring only.

AWS.EC2.NetworkPacketsOut Count

The number of packets sent out on all network interfaces by the instance. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance. This metric is available for basic monitoring only.

AWS.EC2.StatusCheckFailed Count

Reports whether the instance has passed both the instance status check and the system status check in the last minute.This metric can be either 0 (passed) or 1 (failed).

AWS.EC2.StatusCheckFailed_AttachedEBS Count Indicates whether there is a failure in the status check related to attached EBS volumes.
AWS.EC2.StatusCheckFailed_Instance boolean

Reports whether the instance has passed the instance status check in the last minute.This metric can be either 0 (passed) or 1 (failed).

AWS.EC2.StatusCheckFailed_System boolean

Indicates whether there is a failure in the system status check, detecting underlying problems with the AWS systems on which your instance runs, such as hardware or network issues.