Cloud & hybrid monitoring · 6 min read

Bring AWS CloudWatch metrics into Linivo

Linivo can pull CloudWatch metrics through a read-only IAM role, so EC2, RDS and load-balancer health sit in the same timeline as your on-prem devices.

What you'll need

  • An AWS account with permission to create an IAM role
  • Network egress from the Linivo sensor (or Linivo Cloud, for the SaaS-native path) to the AWS API
1

Create a read-only IAM role

Create a role with the CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess managed policy (or a narrower custom policy scoped to just the namespaces you need), and generate an access key or configure it for role assumption if Linivo Cloud connects directly.

2

Choose which namespaces to ingest

Pulling every CloudWatch namespace by default gets noisy fast. Start with EC2, RDS and ELB/ALB, the ones with the clearest operational signal, and add others deliberately rather than ingesting everything at once.

3

Add the AWS integration in Linivo

Once connected, discovered resources appear as devices the same way an on-prem host would, and their CloudWatch alarms can feed into the same correlated-incident timeline as your network detections.