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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service designed to help collect, analyze, and act on data from applications, infrastructure, and services running in AWS and on-premises environments. You can export telemetry data from your s with the time-series and analytics capability enabled to CloudWatch. The available metrics include CPU usage, RAM usage, and storage. This integration is available for Scale and Enterprise pricing tiers. This pages explains how to export telemetry data from your into CloudWatch by creating a data exporter, then attaching it to the .

Prerequisites

To follow the steps on this page:
  • Create a target with time-series and analytics enabled. You need your connection details.

Create a data exporter

A data exporter sends telemetry data from a to a third-party monitoring tool. You create an exporter on the project level, in the same AWS region as your :

Attach a data exporter to a

To send telemetry data to an external monitoring tool, you attach a data exporter to your . You can attach only one exporter to a . To attach an exporter:

Monitor metrics

You can now monitor your metrics. Use the following metrics to check the service is running correctly:
  • timescale.cloud.system.cpu.usage.millicores
  • timescale.cloud.system.cpu.total.millicores
  • timescale.cloud.system.memory.usage.bytes
  • timescale.cloud.system.memory.total.bytes
  • timescale.cloud.system.disk.usage.bytes
  • timescale.cloud.system.disk.total.bytes
Additionally, use the following tags to filter your results.
TagExample variableDescription
hostus-east-1.timescale.cloud
project-id
service-id
regionus-east-1AWS region
rolereplica or primaryFor with replicas
node-idFor multi-node services

Edit a data exporter

To update a data exporter:

Delete a data exporter

To remove a data exporter that you no longer need:

Reference

When you create the IAM OIDC provider, the URL must match the region you create the exporter in. It must be one of the following:
RegionZoneLocationURL
ap-southeast-1Asia PacificSingaporeirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-ap-southeast-1.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
ap-southeast-2Asia PacificSydneyirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-ap-southeast-2.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com
ap-northeast-1Asia PacificTokyoirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-ap-northeast-1.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com
ca-central-1CanadaCentralirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-ca-central-1.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com
eu-central-1EuropeFrankfurtirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-eu-central-1.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
eu-west-1EuropeIrelandirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-eu-west-1.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
eu-west-2EuropeLondonirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com
sa-east-1South AmericaSão Pauloirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-sa-east-1.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com
us-east-1United StatesNorth Virginiairsa-oidc-discovery-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
us-east-2United StatesOhioirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
us-west-2United StatesOregonirsa-oidc-discovery-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com