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whitebear
whitebear

Reputation: 12433

How to get the data csv or raw numbers from cloud watch

I am monitoring Network In Average and Network Out Average by cloud watch.

I can check the graph on the web.

However I want to get the csv or raw numbers data.

I have checkws around but not found the some download way or showing raw numbers.

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I am familiar with php/python or crawling, but not familiar with aws.

Where should I start ???

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1574

Answers (1)

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238309

Unfortunately, there is no build in functionality for that in console. Thus, the get the raw data, you have to use get_metric_data or get_metric_statistics methods in Python using boto3 (AWS SDK for Python).

Which one and how to use it is explained in a recent AWS blog post;

It's a best practice to use the GetMetricData API instead of GetMetricStatistics, because you can retrieve data faster at scale with GetMetricData.

Instead of writing your own program for that, you can have a look at already developed tools for that. For example:

Upvotes: 1

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