topic AWS CWAgent are not getting to Splunk in Getting Data In

AWS CWAgent are not getting to Splunk

kongusuresh — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:56:58 GMT

Hi
I have configured my input files as follows to get the cwagent custom metrics but metrics are not getting to Splunk server.
Please help I am struggling with it.

[aws_cloudwatch://test-CWagent_cca2f8c6-b830-41c1-8703-f2f22781a174]
aws_account = ************
aws_region = **************
metric_dimensions = [{"InstanceId":["."]}]
index = *****_cwagent
metric_names = "."
metric_namespace = CWAgent
period = 600
polling_interval = 3600
sourcetype = aws:cloudwatch
use_metric_format = false
statistics = ["Average","Sum","SampleCount","Maximum","Minimum"]
metric_expiration = 3600
query_window_size = 24

Re: AWS CWAgent are not getting to Splunk

amiracle — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:19:23 GMT

Why not use collectd or the Splunk UF to pull the metrics and send them directly without using the CWAgent? This way if you move instances to another cloud provider, the configurations transfer easily without having to re-write props / transforms.

Re: AWS CWAgent are not getting to Splunk

kongusuresh — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:48:36 GMT

It is not possible because the cwagent is part of our golden amu and we are some automated scripts to build the alarm and aws dashboard

Re: AWS CWAgent are not getting to Splunk

samsplunks — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:25:35 GMT

Same problem, no solution found.

If it can grab AWS namespaces, why can't it grab Custom namespaces?