CPU usage alarm

- [Instructor] EC2 instances can be monitored for several … metrics, such as CPU utilization, network utilization, … and disk reads and writes. … Let's see how to create a CloudWatch alarm … for CPU utilization. … I'm here at the CloudWatch Management Console. … I'll first navigate to the Alarms section … on the left navigation pane … and then click the Create Alarm button. … First we need to select a metric. … Click on the Select metric button. … The options you see here will depend on the services … being used in your AWS account. … If you do not have an EC2 instance running, … you will not see the EC2 option. … Also keep in mind that after you launch an EC2 instance … it can take up to a few minutes for the EC2 metrics … to show here. … I'll select the EC2 option … and then click the dimension Per-Instance Metrics. … Here we can see the EC2 instance name, the instance ID, … and the metric name. … The metric we are looking for is CPU utilization. … Select the metric for each EC2 instance you'd like to track, …