Ensure detailed monitoring for EC2 instances is enabled

Error: Detailed monitoring for EC2 instances is disabled

Bridgecrew Policy ID: BC_AWS_LOGGING_26
Checkov Check ID: CKV_AWS_126
Severity: MEDIUM

Detailed monitoring for EC2 instances is disabled

Description

Enabling detailed monitoring for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances can provide you with additional data and insights about the performance and utilization of your instances. : Detailed monitoring can provide you with more data about the utilization of your instances, which can be helpful for capacity planning and optimization.

Fix - Buildtime

Terraform

  • Resource: aws_instance
  • Argument: monitoring
resource "aws_instance" "test" {
+  monitoring = true   
 }