elasticsearchcloudwatch 0.1.8

Elasticsearch monitoring scripts for CloudWatch

elasticsearch-cloudwatch-python
=============================

Elasticsearch monitoring scripts for CloudWatch.

### NOTE: This is just a template from which to make your own scripts. ###
Do not attempt to download and run. You will need to modify the scripts to
fit your own needs.


Requirements
------------

- Python >= 2.6
- Boto >= 2.33.0
- Boto3 >= 1.2.2
- Elasticsearch >= 2.1.0


Installation
------------

Optionally create a virtual environment and activate it. Then just run
`pip install elasticsearchcloudwatch`. This will install the scripts in /usr/local/bin folder.

For script usage, run:

get_web_reqeust.py --help
put_web_request.py --help


Examples
--------
Edit the /etc/elasticsearchcloudwatch/escw.config file and and put the appropriate parameters.

To perform a simple test run without posting data to Amazon CloudWatch

* * * * * /usr/bin/get_web_request.py --query WebRequest_Test --verbose

To post the data to Amazon CloudWatch

* * * * * /usr/bin/put_web_request.py --query WebRequest_Test --from-cron --verbose




Configuration
-------------

To allow an EC2 instance to read and post metric data to Amazon CloudWatch,
this IAM policy is required:

{
"Statement": [
{
"Action": [
"elasticsearchcloudwatch:WebRequest"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}

If the policy is configured via an IAM role that is assigned to the EC2
server this script runs on, you're done.

Otherwise you can configure the policy for a user account and export
the credentials before running the script:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[Your AWS Access Key ID]
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[Your AWS Secret Access Key]

Third option is to create a _~/.boto_ file with this content:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = Your AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key = Your AWS Secret Access Key


Copyright
---------

Copyright 2015 Will Rubel

Based on Python-Version of CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux -
Copyright 2015 Oliver Siegmar. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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