How can I create an alarm in CloudWatch to monitor CPU utilization of an EC2 instance?

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Narendran Srinivasan · Accepted Answer

aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name HighCPU --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/EC2 --statistic Average --period 300 --threshold 80 --comparison-operator GreaterThanThreshold --dimensions Name=InstanceId,Value=i-1234567890abcdef0 --evaluation-periods 2 --alarm-actions arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:my-sns-topic --unit Percent

How can I create an alarm in CloudWatch to monitor CPU utilization of an EC2 instance?

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