[FIXED] How to detect EC2 instance has been idle

Issue

I am looking for idea how to approach this problem, basically measuring EC2 instance activity.

Is there a way I can know that via AWS? If not, how can I measure activity on e.g. Ubuntu instance. Taking into account that I will have some processes running and looking into their activity?

Solution

I'm not sure how you are defining "instance activity" but you can monitor your Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon CloudWatch and then query on the CPUUtilization metric to get information about how much CPU your instance is using (see Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Dimensions and Metrics for details).

Answered By - garnaat

Answer Checked By - Willingham (PHPFixing Volunteer)