Cron script for report all possible metrics to CloudWatch using 'Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux' from https://aws.amazon.com/code/8720044071969977 (requires the load patch).

aws-scripts-mon-cron.sh

#!/bin/bash
# crontab line:
#    * * * * *       <PATH_TO>/aws-scripts-mon-cron.sh
/opt/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data-patch-load.pl --aws-access-key-id='AKIAxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' --aws-secret-key='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' \
        --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --swap-util --swap-used \
        $(df -h -x "tmpfs" -x "devtmpfs" | sed 1d | awk '{print $6}' | sort -u | while read i; do echo -n " --disk-path=$i"; done) \
        --disk-space-util --disk-space-used --disk-space-avail \
        --load-1 --load-5 --load-15 \
        --from-cron