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Create an EC2 - Instance....
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Monitoring offers:
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How to enable monitoring for already created EC2 instances
Console:
- Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
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- In the navigation pane, choose Instances.
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2. Select the instance and choose Actions, Monitoring, Manage detailed monitoring.
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3. On the Detailed monitoring detail page, for Detailed monitoring, select the Enable check box and choose Save.
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AWS-CLI:
aws ec2 monitor-instances --intance-ids <xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Related post - How to create a monitoring alert for EC2 instances (AWS)
Sources:
Enable or turn off detailed monitoring for your instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Enable or turn off detailed monitoring for your EC2 instance.