Amazon ElastiCache monitoring integration

Important

Enable the AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams integration to monitor all CloudWatch metrics from your AWS services, including custom namespaces. Individual integrations are no longer our recommended option.

New Relic infrastructure integrations include an integration for reporting your Amazon ElastiCache data to New Relic. This document explains how the integration works and what data can be reported.

Features

Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store or cache in the cloud. New Relic's ElastiCache integration reports data from your Amazon ElastiCache instances, including CPU data, bytes in and out, memory, and data specific to the Redis and Memcached services. New Relic integrations give you the ability to create alert conditions for your data, as well as query and create charts.

Activate integration

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to Connect AWS services to New Relic.

Configuration and polling

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using configuration options.

Default polling information for the Amazon ElastiCache integration:

New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes
Amazon CloudWatch data interval: 1 minute or 5 minutes

Find and use data

To find this integration's data, go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure > AWS and select one of the ElastiCache integration links.

You can query and explore your data using the DatastoreSample event type, with a provider value of ElastiCacheRedisNode, ElastiCacheRedisCluster, or ElastiCacheMemcachedNode.

For more on how to find and use integration data, see Understand integration data.

Metric data

Standard ElastiCache data

This integration collects the following data from all ElastiCache instances:

Tip

For full descriptions, see Amazon ElastiCache Metrics and Dimensions.

Name	Data type
`CPUUtilization`	percent
`CpuCreditUsage`	count
`CpuCreditBalance`	count
`DatabaseMemoryUsagePercentage`	percent
`FreeableMemory`	bytes
`NetworkBytesIn`	bytes
`NetworkBytesOut`	bytes
`SwapUsage`	bytes

Redis-specific ElastiCache data

This integration collects the following information from Redis instances, in addition to the standard ElastiCache data.

Tip

For full descriptions, see Amazon ElastiCache Metrics for Redis.

Name	Data type
`BytesUsedForCache`	bytes
`CacheHits`	integer
`CacheHitRate`	percent
`CacheInteger`	integer
`CacheMisses`	integer
`CurrConnections`	integer
`CurrItems`	count
`Db0AverageTtl`	integer (milliseconds)
`EvalBasedCmds`	count
`EvalBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`Evictions`	integer
`GeoSpatialBasedCmds`	count
`GeoSpatialBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`GetTypeCmds`	count
`GetTypeCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`HashBasedCmds`	count
`HashBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`HyperLogLogBasedCommands`	integer
`HyperLogLogBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`KeyBasedCmds`	count
`KeyBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`ListBasedCmds`	count
`ListBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`MasterLinkHealthStatus`	integer
`MemoryFragmentationRatio`	integer
`NewConnections`	integer
`PubSubBasedCmds`	count
`PubSubBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`Reclaimed`	integer
`ReplicationBytes`	bytes
`ReplicationLag`	integer (seconds)
`SaveInProgress`	integer
`SetBasedCmds`	count
`SetBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`SetTypeCmds`	count
`SetTypeCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`SortedSetBasedCmds`	count
`SortedBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`StreamBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)
`StringBasedCmds`	count
`StringBasedCmdsLatency`	integer (microseconds)

Memcached-specific ElastiCache data

This integration collects the following data from Memcached instances, in addition to the standard ElastiCache data.

Tip

For full descriptions, see Amazon ElastiCache Metrics for Memcached.

Name	Data type
`bytesReadIntoMemcached`	bytes
`bytesusedForCacheItems`	bytes
`bytesWrittenOutFromMemcached`	bytes
`casBadval`	count
`casHits`	count
`casMisses`	count
`cmdFlush`	count
`cmdGet`	count
`cmdSet`	count
`decrHits`	count
`decrMisses`	count
`deleteHits`	count
`deleteMisses`	count
`getHits`	count
`getMisses`	count
`incrHits`	count
`incrMisses`	count
`bytesUsedForHash`	bytes
`cmdConfigGet`	count
`cmdConfigSet`	count
`cmdTouch`	count
`currConfig`	count
`evictedUnfetched`	count
`expiredUnfetched`	count
`slabsMoved`	count
`touchHits`	count
`touchMisses`	count
`newItems`	count
`unusedMemory`	bytes