AWS Metrics
PacketAI metric collector for AWS metrics is a pull agent with minimal configuration.
To grant PacketAI access to your AWS metrics:
Setup
- 1.Go to Deploy PacketAI → AWS
- 2.Fill in your AWS Access key ID and AWS Secret access key
- 3.Choose the integrations you want to monitor(toggle switch so it's green)
- 4.Click on Start metrics monitoring

Configuration
No further configuration is needed
Note
PacketAI AWS collector will only work if the IAM user has the correct permissions for each AWS service:
Billing:
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- tag:getResources
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
CloudWatch:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- tag:getResources
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- tag:getResources
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
EBS:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- tag:getResources
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
EC2:
- ec2:DescribeInstances
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
ELB:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- tag:getResources
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
RDS:
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- rds:DescribeDBInstances
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
S3 daily storage:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
S3 request:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
SNS:
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- sns:ListTopics
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
SQS:
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- sqs:ListQueues
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
Usage:
- ec2:DescribeRegions
- cloudwatch:GetMetricData
- cloudwatch:ListMetrics
- tag:getResources
- sts:GetCallerIdentity
- iam:ListAccountAliases
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