Product Documentation

ElastiCache

LogicMonitor currently has the following datasources for monitoring ElastiCache performance metrics:

  1. AWS_ElastiCache_Redis – redis node performance data
  2. AWS_ElastiCache_Memcached – memcached node performance data

Note there is additional configuration required for LogicMonitor to collect data for your ElastiCache instances.

AWS_ElastiCache_Redis

Source: CloudWatch

Datapoints:

  • Bytes Used
  • Cache Efficiency, Hits & Misses
  • Connection Rate
  • Current Connections
  • Current Items
  • Network Bytes In, Bytes Out, In bps, Out bps
  • Swap Usage
  • Evictions
  • Get Type Commands
  • Hash Based Commands
  • Freeable Memory
  • CPU Utilization
  • Key Based Commands
  • List Based Commands
  • More…

Default Polling Interval: 1 minute

Additional Configuration Required?: Yes. See the Additional Configuration section below.

AWS_ElastiCache_Redis

AWS_ElastiCache_Memcached

Source: CloudWatch

Datapoints:

  • Bytes Used
  • Cache Efficiency, Hits & Misses
  • Connection Rate
  • Current Connections
  • Current Items
  • Network Bytes In, Bytes Out, In bps, Out bps
  • Swap Usage
  • Evictions
  • Get Type Commands
  • Hash Based Commands
  • Freeable Memory
  • CPU Utilization
  • Key Based Commands
  • List Based Commands
  • More…

Default Polling Interval: 1 minute

Additional Configuration Necessary?: Yes. See the Additional Configuration section below.

AWS_ElastiCache_Memcached

Additional Configuration

If you’d like LogicMonitor to monitor your AWS ElastiCache instances, you need to add the following policy to your LogicMonitor AWS user:

{
"Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "elasticache:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
 ]
}
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