External metrics ingestion

You can use the external metrics ingestion feature to configure AWS Compute Optimizer to ingest EC2 memory utilization metrics from one of the four observability products: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic. When you enable external metrics ingestion, Compute Optimizer analyzes your external EC2 memory utilization metrics in addition to your CPU, disk, network, IO, and throughput data to generate EC2 rightsizing recommendations. These recommendations can provide you with additional savings and enhanced performance. For more information, see Configuring external metrics ingestion.

Metric requirements

To generate EC2 rightsizing recommendations with external memory utilization metrics, Compute Optimizer requires at least 30 consecutive hours of memory utilization metrics from your observability product. If you don’t have enough hours of external memory utilization metrics, Compute Optimizer analyzes and generates recommendations from your CloudWatch metrics until you reach the external memory metric requirements.

Organization and account level

You can configure external metric ingestion at both the organization and account level. If you're a member account of an AWS organization that configured external metrics ingestion, you can opt out of this feature. For more information, see Opting out of external metrics ingestion.

Suppose that you're a new member of an AWS organization that already configured external metrics ingestion. Then, you must configure external metrics ingestion for your AWS account manually. For more information, see Configuring external metrics ingestion.

Next steps

For instructions on how to configure external metric ingestion, see Configuring external metrics ingestion.