nagios-cloudwatch-plugin 0.2.1

Nagios plugin to check AWS CloudWatch metrics

This plugin for checks AWS CloudWatch metrics. It uses the popular boto library to gather metric values. this plugin does not currently have a means of directly supplying AWS credentials - for this, consult the boto docs.

Setup

1. pip install nagios-cloudwatch-plugin

2. /usr/local/bin/check_cloudwatch.py -h:

   usage: check_cloudwatch.py [-h] -n NAMESPACE -m METRIC [-d DIMENSIONS]
                              [-s {Average,Sum,SampleCount,Maximum,Minimum}]
                              [-l LAG] [-w RANGE] [-c RANGE] [-v]
   
   Nagios plugin to check cloudwatch metrics
   
   optional arguments:
     -h, --help            show this help message and exit
     -n NAMESPACE, --namespace NAMESPACE
                           namespace for cloudwatch metric
     -m METRIC, --metric METRIC
                           metric name
     -d DIMENSIONS, --dimensions DIMENSIONS
                           dimensions of cloudwatch metric in the format
                           dimension=value[,dimension=value...]
     -s {Average,Sum,SampleCount,Maximum,Minimum}, --statistic {Average,Sum,SampleCount,Maximum,Minimum}
                           statistic used to evaluate metric
     -l LAG, --lag LAG     delay in seconds to add to starting time for gathering
                           metric. useful for ec2 basic monitoring which
                           aggregates over 5min periods
     -w RANGE, --warning RANGE
                           warning if threshold is outside RANGE
     -c RANGE, --critical RANGE
                           critical if threshold is outside RANGE
     -v, --verbose         increase verbosity (use up to 3 times)

Develop

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