README.md in fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-1.2.7 vs README.md in fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-1.2.8
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# fluent-plugin-cloudwatch, a plugin for [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org) [](https://travis-ci.org/yunomu/fluent-plugin-cloudwatch/)
## Overview
-***AWS CloudWatch*** input plugin.
-this plugin is simple.
-get metrics from cloudwatch.
+***AWS CloudWatch*** input plugin.
-1. get every 300 seconds from AWS CloudWatch API(sleep 1sec)
-2. 300 seconds of data
+This plugin is simple.
+Get metrics from cloudwatch to fluentd.
+* Get metrics from AWS CloudWatch API.
+ * Interval is 300(default. config=interval) seconds
+ * Fetch datapoints in recent (interval * 10) seconds, and emit the latest datapoint to Fluentd data stream.
+
## Configuration
```config
<source>
type cloudwatch
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metric_name [metric name]
dimensions_name [dimensions_name]
dimensions_value [dimensions value]
period [period] (default: 300)
interval [interval] (default: 300)
+ delayed_start [bool] (default: false)
</source>
-
```
### GET RDS Metric
```config
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```
#### output data format
```
-
2013-03-21T14:08:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"HealthyHostCount":2.0}
2013-03-21T14:08:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"HTTPCode_Backend_2XX":1.0}
2013-03-21T14:08:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"Latency":0.004025}
2013-03-21T14:08:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"RequestCount":1.0}
2013-03-21T14:09:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"UnHealthyHostCount":0.0}
-
```
### GET EC2 Metirc
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```
#### output data format
```
-
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"CPUUtilization":1.58}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"DiskReadBytes":0.0}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"DiskReadBytes":0.0}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"DiskWriteBytes":0.0}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"DiskWriteOps":0.0}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"NetworkIn":95183.0}
2013-02-25T00:44:00+09:00 cloudwatch {"NetworkOut":95645.0}
-
```
### GET DynamoDB Metirc
```config
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```
#### output data format
```
-
2013-04-11 15:13:00 +0900 cloudwatch {"ConsumedReadCapacityUnits":8271.5}
2013-04-11 15:13:00 +0900 cloudwatch {"ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits":2765.5}
-
```
### GET Billing Metirc
Note: Billing requires the us-east-1 endpoint
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```
#### output data format
```
-
2013-06-10 02:03:00 +0900 cloudwatch {"EstimatedCharges_in_USD":"543.175"}
2013-06-10 04:03:00 +0900 cloudwatch {"EstimatedCharges_in_USD":"550.39"}
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```
### GET StorageGateway Metirc
```config
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```
2014-01-20 20:12:00 +0900 cloudwatch: {"CacheHitPercent":0.0}
2014-01-20 20:12:00 +0900 cloudwatch: {"CachePercentUsed":95.15519175634687}
```
+
+
+## config: delayed_start
+
+When config `delayed_start` is set true, plugin startup will be delayed in random seconds(0 ~ interval).
## Contributing
1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)