Cloudwatch monitor linux server load vs CPU

After holding off and doing other things, I have figured it out. So what I did was a simple bash script to get the load and push that as a custom metric that runs every minute.

Here is the basic script if anyone wants/needs but having the load vs the CPU is a much better representation to the box as there are so many factors that can slow a server down;

#!/usr/bin/env bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

#Grab the load (and only the first 1 minute average)
load=$( cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{print $1;}' )

#to get the instance-ID
id=`cat /var/lib/cloud/data/instance-id`

#echo $id 
#echo $load
aws cloudwatch put-metric-data --metric-name="load"  --namespace "ServerLoad"  --dimensions Instance=$id --value $load

Thanks