AWS::CloudWatch::InsightRule

• Provide metrics for every service in AWS
• Cloudwatch is commonly used as base for auto scaling
• Source: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, VPC, SDK, ...
• Sink: S3, ElasticSearch, ...

Properties

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-cloudwatch-insightrule.html

RuleBody

• Define and send your own custom metrics to CloudWatch
• Use API PutMetricData to send values
• MetricResolution: Standard (1min), High Resolution (10 or 30 seconds)

aws cloudwatch put-metric-data \
  --namespace "Usage Metrics" \
  --metric-data "file://metric.json"