A new multi-platform CloudWatch agent is available. You can use a single agent to collect both system metrics and log files from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers. The new agent supports both Windows Server and Linux and enables you to select the metrics to be collected, including sub-resource metrics such as per-CPU core. We recommend you use the new agent instead of the older monitoring scripts to collect metrics and logs. For more information about the CloudWatch agent, see Collect Metrics from Amazon EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers with the CloudWatch Agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide Package Contents The package for the monitoring scripts contains the following files: CloudWatchClient.pm – Shared Perl module that simplifies calling Amazon CloudWatch from other scripts. mon-put-instance-data.pl – Collects system metrics on an Amazon EC2 instance (memory, swap, disk space utilization) and sends them t...