Monitoring memory usage in AWS CloudWatch for Windows instance

Question

By default, memory usage isn’t monitored by CloudWatch. So I tried to add it to my Windows instance in AWS using these instructions.

This is what I did:

Answer 1

I am running a Windows 2012 Base R2 Server and it is running EC2Config Version greater than 4.0. If anyone faces the same problem, please restart the Amazon SSM Agent Service after restarting EC2Config Service.

I read it in the following link [STEP-6] :

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/send_logs_to_cwl.html

It reads the following :

If you are running EC2Config version 4.0 or later, then you must restart the SSM Agent on the instance from the Microsoft Services snap-in.

I solved my issue by doing this.