This class is the starting point for working with Amazon CloudWatch.
To use Amazon CloudWatch you must first [sign up here](aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/).
For more information about Amazon CloudWatch:
# Credentials
You can setup default credentials for all AWS services via AWS.config:
AWS.config( :access_key_id => 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID', :secret_access_key => 'YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
Or you can set them directly on the AWS::CloudWatch interface:
cw = AWS::CloudWatch.new( :access_key_id => 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID', :secret_access_key => 'YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
# Using the Client
AWS::CloudWatch does not provide higher level abstractions for CloudWatch at this time. You can still access all of the API methods using {AWS::CloudWatch::Client}. Here is how you access the client and make a simple request:
cw = AWS::CloudWatch.new resp = cw.client.describe_alarms resp[:metric_alarms].each do |alarm| puts alarm[:alarm_name] end
See {Client} for documentation on all of the supported operations.
@!attribute [r] client
@return [Client] the low-level CloudWatch client object
Puts data for a metric. The metric is created if it does not already exist.
cw.put_metric_data( :namespace => 'test/cli', :metric_data => [ { :metric_name => 'sample', :value => 1 }, { :metric_name => 'sample', :value => 2 }, { :metric_name => 'sample', :value => 3 }, { :metric_name => 'sample', :value => 4 }, { :metric_name => 'sample', :value => 5 }, ] )
@param [Hash] options @see Client#put_metric_data @return [nil]