⛅️ AWS Cloudwatch Metric Stream

Pre-requisites

Create a cluster on Levitate dashboard and copy the Write HTTP Endpoint URL from the Cloudstream section.

Creating an AWS Kinesis Delivery Stream

1. Open the AWS Kinesis homepage (console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/home)

2. Open the left sidebar (click on the ☰ icon, if it is not expanded already)

3. Click on Delivery Streams

   

4. Click on Create delivery stream

   

5. Choose Direct PUT

   

6. Delivery stream name = last9-$your_organization_name

   

7. Set the copied write HTTP Endpoint URL from Levitate cluster as an HTTP endpoint.

   

8. Add username and password. Use cluster_id from Levitate cluster page as username and write token as password. Reach out to Last9 team to get username and password if needed.

   

9. Choose or create an S3 bucket to save data the stream failed to deliver.

   

10. Click on Create delivery stream

    

Sending data from Cloudwatch to the delivery stream

1. Open the Cloudwatch console and click on Metrics -> Streams

   

2. Click on Create metric stream

   

3. Choose All metrics for sending all Cloudwatch metrics. Optionally you can also select specific namespace metrics you want to send by using theSelect namespaces =.

   

4. Ensure that you use the delivery stream created in the earlier step and that the output format is Opentelemetry 0.7

   

5. Enter the Metric stream name as last9-$your_organization_name - click on Create metric stream

   

Verification

The ingestion summary will start showing up Levitate cluster once the stream is enabled and starts ingesting data to Levitate.

Troubleshooting

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