Enabling Amazon CloudWatch on an Existing Amazon EC2 Instance
This section describes how to enable monitoring for a running instance.
Command Line Tools
To monitor an instance
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Use the
ec2-monitor-instances
command.PROMPT>
instance_id
Amazon EC2 returns output similar to the following example.
i-ae0bf0c7 monitoring-pending
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The following command displays the monitoring status of the instance.
PROMPT>
instance_id
RESERVATION r-7430c31d 924417782495 default INSTANCE i-ae0bf0c7 ami-2bb65342 ec2-67-202-7-236.compute-1.amazonaws.com ip-10-251-31-162.ec2.internal running gsg-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-03-21T16:19:25+0000us-east-1a monitoring-enabled