Connect AWS Account in Sysdig Monitor

Sysdig Platform can collect both general metadata, AWS Private Billing information, and various types of CloudWatch metrics from your AWS environment to provide the following:

  • Cloud Watch Monitoring : Monitor your AWS infrastructure for health and performance.

    You can use one of the following methods to connect an AWS account to Sysdig:

    • CloudWatch Metric Streams

    • AWS CloudWatch APIs

      After connecting an AWS account, data will become visible in the Sysdig Monitor UI after a 10-15 minute delay.

  • Cost and Usage Reporting: View AWS billing reports and savings estimates. Connect an AWS account using one of the following:

    • An AWS access key and secret key
    • AWS Role Delegation
Topics in This Section
CloudWatch Monitoring

You can forward metrics from AWS CloudWatch to Sysdig Monitor using AWS Metric Streams or the CloudWatch API. This provides cloud account visibility over AWS services, such as Lambda, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) , and Simple Storage Service (S3). You can configure Cloudwatch integration using Cloudformation or Terraform.

AWS Cost and Usage Reporting

Sysdig can connect to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and provide AWS private billing capabilities. You can view AWS usage reports and saving estimates in one location.

Integrate AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Sysdig provides Sysdig Monitor Lambda Extension (Preview) for AWS Lambda Telemetry API to help you consume Lambda metrics, providing great visibility into serverless environments. The extension can subscribe to the Telemetry API, process the telemetry event streams in real-time, and send the metrics to Sysdig Monitor. You can simply add the Sysdig Lambda Extension as a layer to your individual Lambda functions and receive telemetry metric streams for each Lambda function.

Troubleshoot AWS Account Connections

The potential causes for failing to connect to an AWS account are: