AWS CloudWatch Uptime

This is a tool to report an EC2 instances uptime to CloudWatch as a custom metric. By default, it reports every 15 minutes.

CloudWatch Metric Parameters

• Namespace: Custom
• MetricName: Uptime
• Unit: Seconds
• Dimension: InstanceId

Installing & Running as a Service

Linux

[Unit]
Description=CloudWatch - System Uptime Daemon
Requires=amazon-cloudwatch-agent.service
After=amazon-cloudwatch-agent.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/aws-cloudwatch-uptime

Windows

aws-cloudwatch-uptime.exe -service install
aws-cloudwatch-uptime.exe -service start