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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.

AWS Permissions [_aws_permissions_6]

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

Dashboard [_dashboard_7]

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

Configuration example [_configuration_example_6]

- 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.

Metrics [_metrics_4]

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

Metrics for Classic ELB [_metrics_for_classic_elb]

Metrics for Application ELB [_metrics_for_application_elb]

Metrics for Network ELB [_metrics_for_network_elb]