# Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance
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The following example shows a component configuration in JSON format for an Amazon EC2 instance.

**Important**  
When an Amazon EC2 instance enters a `stopped` state, it is removed from monitoring. When it returns to a `running` state, it is added to the list of **Unmonitored components** on the **Application details** page of the CloudWatch Application Insights console. If automatic monitoring of new resources is enabled for the application, the instance is added to the list of **Monitored components**. However, the logs and metrics are set to the default for the workload. The previous log and metrics configuration is not saved. 

```
{
    "alarmMetrics" : [
      {
        "alarmMetricName" : "CPUUtilization",
        "monitor" : true
      }, {
        "alarmMetricName" : "StatusCheckFailed"
      }
    ],
    "logs" : [
      {
        "logGroupName" : "my_log_group",
        "logPath" : "C:\\LogFolder\\*",
        "logType" : "APPLICATION",
        "monitor" : true
      },
      {
        "logGroupName" : "my_log_group_2",
        "logPath" : "C:\\LogFolder2\\*",
        "logType" : "IIS",
        "encoding" : "utf-8"
      }
    ],
    "processes" : [
        {
            "processName" : "my_process",
            "alarmMetrics" : [
                {
                    "alarmMetricName" : "procstat cpu_usage",
                    "monitor" : true
                }, {
                    "alarmMetricName" : "procstat memory_rss",
                    "monitor" : true
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "windowsEvents" : [
      {
        "logGroupName" : "my_log_group_3",
        "eventName" : "Application",
        "eventLevels" : [ "ERROR", "WARNING", "CRITICAL" ],
        "monitor" : true
      }, {
        "logGroupName" : "my_log_group_4",
        "eventName" : "System",
        "eventLevels" : [ "ERROR", "WARNING", "CRITICAL" ],
        "monitor" : true
    }],
     "alarms" : [
      {
        "alarmName" : "my_instance_alarm_1",
        "severity" : "HIGH"
      },
      {
        "alarmName" : "my_instance_alarm_2",
        "severity" : "LOW"
      }
    ],
     "subComponents" : [
     {
       "subComponentType" : "AWS::EC2::Volume",
       "alarmMetrics" : [
       {
         "alarmMetricName" : "VolumeQueueLength",
         "monitor" : "true"
       },
       {
         "alarmMetricName" : "VolumeThroughputPercentage",
         "monitor" : "true"
       },
       {
         "alarmMetricName" : "BurstBalance",
         "monitor" : "true"
       }]
    }]
  }
```