ec2

AWS EC2 Metadata Processor Plugin

AWS EC2 Metadata processor plugin appends metadata gathered from AWS IMDS to metrics associated with EC2 instances.

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Attach AWS EC2 metadata to metrics
[[processors.aws_ec2]]
  ## Instance identity document tags to attach to metrics.
  ## For more information see:
  ## https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-identity-documents.html
  ##
  ## Available tags:
  ## * accountId
  ## * architecture
  ## * availabilityZone
  ## * billingProducts
  ## * imageId
  ## * instanceId
  ## * instanceType
  ## * kernelId
  ## * pendingTime
  ## * privateIp
  ## * ramdiskId
  ## * region
  ## * version
  imds_tags = []

  ## EC2 instance tags retrieved with DescribeTags action.
  ## In case tag is empty upon retrieval it's omitted when tagging metrics.
  ## Note that in order for this to work, role attached to EC2 instance or AWS
  ## credentials available from the environment must have a policy attached, that
  ## allows ec2:DescribeTags.
  ##
  ## For more information see:
  ## https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeTags.html
  ec2_tags = []

  ## Timeout for http requests made by against aws ec2 metadata endpoint.
  timeout = "10s"

  ## ordered controls whether or not the metrics need to stay in the same order
  ## this plugin received them in. If false, this plugin will change the order
  ## with requests hitting cached results moving through immediately and not
  ## waiting on slower lookups. This may cause issues for you if you are
  ## depending on the order of metrics staying the same. If so, set this to true.
  ## Keeping the metrics ordered may be slightly slower.
  ordered = false

  ## max_parallel_calls is the maximum number of AWS API calls to be in flight
  ## at the same time.
  ## It's probably best to keep this number fairly low.
  max_parallel_calls = 10

Example

Append accountId and instanceId to metrics tags:

[[processors.aws_ec2]]
  tags = [ "accountId", "instanceId"]

- cpu,hostname=localhost time_idle=42
+ cpu,hostname=localhost,accountId=123456789,instanceId=i-123456789123 time_idle=42