Monitor ElastiCache with AWS metrics + native metrics
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Monitor ElastiCache with AWS metrics + native metrics


Summary

This article details how to collect metrics from Amazon ElastiCache, covering both Redis and Memcached engines. It explains leveraging CloudWatch metrics for basic monitoring and then dives into using enhanced monitoring to gather more granular, engine-specific data like CPU utilization, memory usage, and cache hit/miss ratios. Ultimately, it aims to help users proactively identify and troubleshoot performance issues within their ElastiCache clusters.
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