AWS Metrics
PacketAI metric collector for AWS metrics is a pull agent with minimal configuration.
To grant PacketAI access to your AWS metrics:
Setup
Go to Deploy PacketAI → AWS
Fill in your AWS Access key ID and AWS Secret access key
Choose the integrations you want to monitor(toggle switch so it's green)
Click on Start metrics monitoring
Configuration
No further configuration is needed
Note
PacketAI AWS collector will only work if the IAM user has the correct permissions for each AWS service:
Billing:
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
CloudWatch:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
tag:getResources
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
EBS:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
EC2:
ec2:DescribeInstances
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
ELB:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
RDS:
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
ec2:DescribeRegions
rds:DescribeDBInstances
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
S3 daily storage:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
S3 request:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
SNS:
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
ec2:DescribeRegions
sns:ListTopics
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
SQS:
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
ec2:DescribeRegions
sqs:ListQueues
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
Usage:
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases
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