#AWC EC2 custom metrics for CloudWatch

Send memory and cpu usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

##Required: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil

##Usage:

1. Clone cloudwatch.py to EC2 linux server

2. Create a boto credentials file /etc/boto.cfg

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = <aws access key>
aws_secret_access_key = <aws access secret>

3. confugure crontab $ crontab -e

* * * * * /usr/bin/python /path/to/cloudwatch.py

##Real CPU usage for t2 instances Standard "CPU Utilization" metrics shows maximum 20% for t2.medium instance on full load and empty "CPU Credit"

"Real CPU Usage" shows real maximum, so you can use it for autoscaling