Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)

For information about differences between classic services and other services, see Migrate from AWS classic (formerly "built-in") services to cloud services.

Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.

Prerequisites

To enable monitoring for this service, you need:

  • Any version of ActiveGate in both Dynatrace SaaS and Managed deployments.

    For role-based access (whether in a SaaS or Managed deployment), you need an ActiveGate installed on an Amazon EC2 host.

  • An updated AWS monitoring policy to include the additional AWS services.
    To update the AWS IAM policy, use the JSON below, containing the monitoring policy (permissions) for all cloud services.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities",
        "apigateway:GET",
        "apprunner:ListServices",
        "appstream:DescribeFleets",
        "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
        "athena:ListWorkGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
        "cloudhsm:DescribeClusters",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeDomains",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "codebuild:ListProjects",
        "datasync:ListTasks",
        "dax:DescribeClusters",
        "directconnect:DescribeConnections",
        "dms:DescribeReplicationInstances",
        "dynamodb:ListTables",
        "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeTransitGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
        "ecs:ListClusters",
        "eks:ListClusters",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
        "elastictranscoder:ListPipelines",
        "es:ListDomainNames",
        "events:ListEventBuses",
        "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams",
        "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
        "gamelift:ListFleets",
        "glue:GetJobs",
        "inspector:ListAssessmentTemplates",
        "kafka:ListClusters",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
        "kinesisvideo:ListStreams",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "lambda:ListTags",
        "lex:GetBots",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "mediaconnect:ListFlows",
        "mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints",
        "mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingConfigurations",
        "mediapackage:ListChannels",
        "mediatailor:ListPlaybackConfigurations",
        "opsworks:DescribeStacks",
        "qldb:ListLedgers",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeEvents",
        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
        "redshift:DescribeClusters",
        "robomaker:ListSimulationJobs",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "sagemaker:ListEndpoints",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sqs:ListQueues",
        "storagegateway:ListGateways",
        "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
        "swf:ListDomains",
        "tag:GetResources",
        "tag:GetTagKeys",
        "transfer:ListServers",
        "workmail:ListOrganizations",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

If you don't want to add permissions to all services, and just select permissions for certain services, consult the table below. The table contains a set of permissions that are required for All AWS cloud services and, for each cloud service, a list of optional permissions specific to that service.

Permissions required for AWS monitoring integration:
  • "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
  • "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
  • "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
  • "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
  • "tag:GetResources"
  • "tag:GetTagKeys"
  • "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"
Name
Permissions
All monitored Amazon services required
cloudwatch:GetMetricData,
cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics,
cloudwatch:ListMetrics,
sts:GetCallerIdentity,
tag:GetResources,
tag:GetTagKeys,
ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority
acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities
Amazon MQ
Amazon API Gateway
apigateway:GET
AWS App Runner
apprunner:ListServices
Amazon AppStream
appstream:DescribeFleets
AWS AppSync
appsync:ListGraphqlApis
Amazon Athena
athena:ListWorkGroups
Amazon Aurora
rds:DescribeDBClusters
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)
autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups
AWS Billing
Amazon Keyspaces
AWS Chatbot
Amazon CloudFront
cloudfront:ListDistributions
AWS CloudHSM
cloudhsm:DescribeClusters
Amazon CloudSearch
cloudsearch:DescribeDomains
AWS CodeBuild
codebuild:ListProjects
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Connect
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
eks:ListClusters
AWS DataSync
datasync:ListTasks
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
dax:DescribeClusters
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
dms:DescribeReplicationInstances
Amazon DocumentDB
rds:DescribeDBClusters
AWS Direct Connect
directconnect:DescribeConnections
Amazon DynamoDB
dynamodb:ListTables
Amazon DynamoDB (built-in)
dynamodb:ListTables,
dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource
Amazon EBS
ec2:DescribeVolumes
Amazon EBS (built-in)
ec2:DescribeVolumes
Amazon EC2 API
Amazon EC2 (built-in)
ec2:DescribeInstances
Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet
ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
ecs:ListClusters
Amazon ECS Container Insights
ecs:ListClusters
Amazon ElastiCache (EC)
elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems
Amazon Elastic Inference
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
elasticmapreduce:ListClusters
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)
es:ListDomainNames
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
elastictranscoder:ListPipelines
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth
Amazon EventBridge
events:ListEventBuses
Amazon FSx
fsx:DescribeFileSystems
Amazon GameLift
gamelift:ListFleets
AWS Glue
glue:GetJobs
Amazon Inspector
inspector:ListAssessmentTemplates
AWS Internet of Things (IoT)
AWS IoT Analytics
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka
kafka:ListClusters
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
kinesisanalytics:ListApplications
Amazon Data Firehose
firehose:ListDeliveryStreams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
kinesis:ListStreams
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
kinesisvideo:ListStreams
AWS Lambda
lambda:ListFunctions
AWS Lambda (built-in)
lambda:ListFunctions,
lambda:ListTags
Amazon Lex
lex:GetBots
Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags,
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
logs:DescribeLogGroups
AWS Elemental MediaConnect
mediaconnect:ListFlows
AWS Elemental MediaConvert
mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints

Example of JSON policy for one single service.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
          {
                  "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
                  "Effect": "Allow",
                  "Action": [
                          "apigateway:GET",
                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                          "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                          "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
                          "tag:GetResources",
                          "tag:GetTagKeys",
                          "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"
                  ],
                  "Resource": "*"
          }
      ]
}

In this example, from the complete list of permissions you need to select

  • "apigateway:GET" for Amazon API Gateway

  • "cloudwatch:GetMetricData", "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics", "cloudwatch:ListMetrics", "sts:GetCallerIdentity", "tag:GetResources", "tag:GetTagKeys", and "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones" for All AWS cloud services.

  • To disable monitoring of built-in services, you need Environment ActiveGate version 1.245+ and Dynatrace version 1.247+.

Endpoint
Service
autoscaling.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
lambda.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS Lambda (built-in), AWS Lambda
elasticloadbalancing.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)
dynamodb.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon DynamoDB (built-in), Amazon DynamoDB
ec2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon EBS (built-in), Amazon EC2 (built-in), Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet, Amazon VPC NAT Gateways, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-to-Site VPN
rds.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon RDS (built-in), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon RDS
s3.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon S3 (built-in)
acm-pca.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority
apigateway.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon API Gateway
apprunner.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS App Runner
appstream2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon AppStream
appsync.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS AppSync
athena.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon Athena
cloudfront.amazonaws.com
Amazon CloudFront
cloudhsmv2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS CloudHSM
cloudsearch.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon CloudSearch
codebuild.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS CodeBuild
datasync.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS DataSync
dax.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
dms.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
directconnect.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS Direct Connect
ecs.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon ECS Container Insights
elasticfilesystem.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
eks.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
elasticache.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
Amazon ElastiCache (EC)
elasticbeanstalk.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in) provides only basic metrics with the count of EC2 instances in the scaling group. To fully monitor extended metrics, you need to select Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (non-built-in) service.

Remember that if you have EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in) service configured, you can’t have Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (non-built-in) service turned on.

By default, Auto Scaling Group metrics aren't reported. To have them reported, you need to enable them in the AWS Auto Scaling Group console.

Enable monitoring

To learn how to enable service monitoring, see Enable service monitoring.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the AWS account page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the AWS account page

To view metrics on the AWS account page

  1. Go to AWS or AWS Classic (latest Dynatrace).
  2. Choose AWS account you want to check metrics for.
  3. Select Service box. Metrics for the selected service are visible under the infographic in the service section.

View metrics on the Dashboard

You can also create your own dashboard. For more information on how to create dashboards, go to Create and edit Dynatrace dashboards

Built-in services specifics

This is a built-in service. It's monitored out-of-the-box once a new AWS integration instance is created. For built-in services, all metrics are recommended (changing configuration is not possible).

Example of AWS built-in monitoring service

example of AWS builtin monitoring service

Available metrics

AutoScalingGroupName is the main dimension.

Metric key
Name
Unit
Aggregations
Monitoring consumption
builtin:cloud.aws.asg.running

Number of running EC2 instances (ASG)

Count
autoavgmaxmin
DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.asg.stopped

Number of stopped EC2 instances (ASG)

Count
autoavgmaxmin
DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.asg.terminated

Number of terminated EC2 instances (ASG)

Count
autoavgmaxmin
DDUs