o11y IM How to enable EC2 Status Check metrics

Applicability

Description

By default, Status Check metrics from Cloudwatch is not imported,  but these can be enabled manually by the user via the API without the need to engage support.

Status Check metrics include:
 - StatusCheckFailed    
 - StatusCheckFailed_Instance    
 - StatusCheckFailed_System    
 - StatusCheckFailed_AttachedEBS    

Resolution

1. Get the integration object from the API:
 

curl --request GET https://api.<your_realm>.signalfx.com/v2/integration/<integration_id> \
--header "X-SF-TOKEN:<access token>" \
--header "Content-Type:application/json" > integration.json

   Please remove the following fields from the call as these would be populated automatically:

"created"
"createdByName"
"creator"
"lastUpdated"
"lastUpdatedBy"
"lastUpdatedByName"

3. Update the integration object via the API:
 

curl --request PUT https://api.<your_realm>.signalfx.com/v2/integration/<integration_id> \
--header "X-SF-TOKEN:<access token>" \
--header "Content-Type:application/json" \
--data "@integration.json" 

To get the <integration_id> for the integration you want to turn EMR on for, you can again use the API and query for a specific name using the query parameter name:
 

curl --request GET https://api.<your_realm>.signalfx.com/v2/integration?name=*<integration name>* \
--header "X-SF-TOKEN:<access token>" \
--header "Content-Type:application/json"

The response object will contain a list of integration objects matching their query, all of which will have an ID attached.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Splunk does not collect StatusCheckFailed because it is a logical operator of StatusCheckFailed_Instance and StatusCheckFailed_System. Simple signalFlow should get StatusCheckFailed by using both the Instance and System metrics.

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