I want to make alarm in case that there is 10% left in my disk space.
I read some articles of how monitoring free disk space with Cloud Watch but I think it seems to be only for linux.
Do you have any solution for monitoring free disk space for windows?
Thanks in advance.
This is how to configure a Windows 2016 EC2 instance to report free disk space (or any other performance counter on your server)
Download a sample AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.json
file. This is where I found one.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/CloudWatchConfig/AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.json
Copy the sample AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.json file on your Windows Server 2016 EC2 Instance here
C:\Program Files\Amazon\SSM\Plugins\awsCloudWatch\
Edit AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.json and set IsEnabled true
Add additional metrics as required. There is a sample one in the config for memory usage. Copy/paste this and alter the Metric name like this:
{
"Id": "PerformanceCounterDisk",
"FullName": "AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch.PerformanceCounterComponent.PerformanceCounterInputComponent,AWS.EC2.Windows.CloudWatch",
"Parameters": {
"CategoryName": "LogicalDisk",
"CounterName": "% Free Space",
"InstanceName": "C:",
"MetricName": "FreeDiskPercentage",
"Unit": "Percent",
"DimensionName": "InstanceId",
"DimensionValue": "{instance_id}"
}
}
Run Powershell as administrator and run
Restart-Service AmazonSSMAgent
New CloudWatch metrics appear almost instantly in AWS CloudWatch.
Configure AWS CloudWatch alarms as required.
Additionally, I made a short video with some tips on setting this up on Windows Server 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKVrJJyG-4I
The following guide from AWS contains a step by step guide. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/send_logs_to_cwl_instances.html#send_logs_cwl_configfile