Amazon EC2 System Monitor for macOS is a small agent that runs on every mac1.metal instance to provide on-instance metrics in CloudWatch. Currently the primary use case for this agent is to send CPU utilization metrics. This uses a serial connection attached via the AWS Nitro System and is forwarded to CloudWatch for the instance automatically. The agent is installed and enabled by default for all AMIs vended by AWS. It logs to /var/log/amazon/ec2/system-monitoring.log and can be updated via Homebrew. The package includes a shell script for enabling, disabling, and listing the current status of the agent according to launched. ...