New Relic AWS integrations query your AWS services according to a polling interval, which varies depending on the integration. Each polling interval by New Relic occurs for every AWS entity. For example, if you have thirteen Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), each one will be polled every five minutes.
Manage polling frequency
By default, the polling interval frequency is set to the maximum. You can change the polling frequency in the configuration settings.
You can also monitor polling intervals by viewing that data in New Relic:
- Go to one.newrelic.com > Infrastructure > AWS.
- Select Account status dashboard.
New Relic polling and CloudWatch data intervals
| AWS integration | New Relic polling interval | Amazon CloudWatch data interval |
|---|---|---|
| ALB | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| API Gateway | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Auto Scaling | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Billing | 1 hour | 4 hours |
| CloudFront | 5 minutes | 1 minute, with up to 1 minute delay because CloudFront sometimes reports partial data |
| CloudTrail | 5 minutes | (CloudWatch does not monitor CloudTrail) |
| DynamoDB | 5 minutes | 1 or 5 minutes, depending on statistic |
| EBS | 15 minutes | 1 or 5 minutes, depending on volume type |
| EC2 | 5 minutes | 1 or 5 minutes, depending on CloudWatch plan |
| ECS/ECR | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| EFS | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Elastic Beanstalk | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| ElastiCache | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Elasticsearch | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| ELB | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| EMR | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Health | 5 minutes | (CloudWatch does not monitor Health) |
| IAM | 5 minutes | (CloudWatch does not monitor IAM) |
| IoT | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Kinesis Firehose | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Kinesis Streams | 15 minutes | 1 minute |
| Lambda | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| RDS | 5 minutes |
1 minute for RDS instances 5 minutes for RDS clusters |
| Redshift | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Route53 | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| S3 |
1 hour for buckets 5 minutes for requests |
24 hours for buckets 1 minute for requests |
| SES | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| SNS | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| SQS | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| VPC | 15 minutes | (CloudWatch does not monitor VPC) |
| X-Ray | 5 minutes | (CloudWatch does not monitor X-Ray) |