EUCCOST08-BP02 Monitor your Amazon WorkSpaces Applications fleet utilization, and optimize scaling policies and buffer capacity

Use Amazon CloudWatch to observe and monitor your Amazon WorkSpaces Applications resources. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications publishes several WorkSpaces Applications Metrics and Dimensions to Amazon CloudWatch that you can visualize and use to check if you are overprovisioning buffer capacity or if you are running into capacity shortages at times. Use these metrics to adjust your WorkSpaces Applications Fleet capacity and scaling policies to minimize idle capacity and reduce insufficient capacity errors where possible. 

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: High

Implementation guidance

Create your own customized CloudWatch dashboards to visualize key WorkSpaces Applications metrics for your WorkSpaces Applications fleets. These dashboards can contain several widgets that display a view of selected metrics of a specific WorkSpaces Applications fleet or across multiple WorkSpaces Applications fleets. Review these dashboards on a regular basis.

Additionally, use the EUC Toolkit to review Amazon CloudWatch and OS-level metrics. This Toolkit also helps you manage large WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Applications deployments at scale. After review of the metrics, determine whether changes to the fleet capacity or scaling policies are required, and plan for how to implement those changes. For more information, see Use the EUC Toolkit to manage Amazon WorkSpaces Applications and Amazon WorkSpaces