bandwidth consuptions and notification

Question

Hi, I am quite new to aws, thus might not sound appropriate at times:
I have a simple requirement:
I have a instance under lightscale and it allows me 1.5 TB of usage every month. The instance was setup on 5th January. now all I need is:
1. At any point if I need to check the total bandwidth usage so far of the instance, how can I do that. I have seen things under instances Metrics/Incoming network traffic, but it shows all bars and no total sum figure for me to calculate of how much more I can use or is used. I understand that I will have to make a sum of incoming and outgoing for this, but I need to get to the figures to make a sum.
2. I want to setup a notification for the usage (inbound and outbound traffic) to come to me on my email from time to time, e,g. I want an email to come to me every week with the total usage done so far for current month

Answer

Lightsail has instance health metric alarms for Incoming and Outgoing Traffic available individually. However there is no metric currently available that combines the two traffic metrics together. I will take the feedback here to the team.

See more about configuring alarms for instance metrics here: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-adding-instance-health-metric-alarms

Thanks for using Lightsail

Answer

No, sorry, that's not yet available. It's been requested.

Personally, I'd like to see total bandwidth utilization for instances & distributions ... basically anything that has a bandwidth cap of some sort.

Answer

There is currently no out of the box way to send you alarms but you can use a following script to trigger an email to you on certain thresholds. Please see the article and script and see if you can tweak it to your usecase.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-instances-calculate-network-bandwidth/

bandwidth consuptions and notification

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