Installing dependencies
yum install cpan
yum install perl-Time-HiRes
cpan >> install Switch
yum install zip unzip
yum install wget
yum install perl-Crypt-SSLeay
wget http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudwatch-samples/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
cd aws-scripts-mon/
vi awscreds.template
AWSAccessKeyId=
AWSSecretKey=
Test it
./mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --disk-path=/ --disk-space-util --disk-space-used --disk-space-avail --swap-used --aws-credential-file=/root/aws-scripts-mon/awscreds.template
Add it to cron
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /root/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --aws-credential-file=/root/aws-scripts-mon/awscreds.template --from-cron