# Metricbeat AWS Module - Which metrics are pulled?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [December 17, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175 "2019-12-17T14:27:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![cesarlino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@cesarlino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cesarlino)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175/1 "2019-12-17T14:27:13Z")

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Hi,

We want to setup AWS module to collect only RDS and S3 metrics with the following frequency:

- RDS: every minute
- S3: once a day

AWS charges by the number of metrics requested. It is not clear how many and which metrics this AWS module configuration will pull from AWS, in order to calculate the cost. Does anybody know that or could point where this is written?

Regards,  
Cesar Lino

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175/2 "2019-12-17T17:43:49Z")

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Hi @cesarlino,

It is actually possible to configure different metricsets with different periods, in the [reference documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.5/metricbeat-module-aws.html#_example_configuration_4) you can find some examples.

Regarding costs, it will depend on the service, you will have to refer to AWS documentation to know more about the pricing. Both RDS and S3 metrics are collected using Cloudwatch.  
The number of requests done on every fetch will depend on the number of regions monitored, and the number of resources deployed. We don't have more specific numbers at the moment.

Metricbeat 7.6.0 will include a new [`billing`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.x/metricbeat-metricset-aws-billing.html) metricset that can be used to monitor the charges in AWS services.

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175/3 "2019-12-17T17:46:46Z")

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Ahh and in 7.6.0 we will include a new [usage](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/metricbeat-metricset-aws-usage.html) metricset that will tell you varies API counts.  
It's definitely a good idea to document the number of API calls we are making for each metricset. [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/15154](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/15154) I just created this issue to track the work. Please feel free to comment on it. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-which-metrics-are-pulled/212175/4 "2020-01-14T19:46:51Z")

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