---
title: ElastiCache enhanced monitoring for CloudWatch metrics
description: Coralogix offers ElastiCache enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS metrics from CloudWatch using the Amazon ElastiCache API to collect tags and additional metrics.
url: https://coralogix.com/docs/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatch/elasticache-enhanced-monitoring/
product: ingress
feature: AWS Metrics Ingress
feature_id: metrics.aws-ingress
feature_identifier: ingress/metrics.aws-ingress
last_updated: '2026-11-12'
---

# ElastiCache enhanced monitoring for CloudWatch metrics

## Overview

Coralogix offers ElastiCache enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS Metrics from CloudWatch using the [Amazon ECS API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html) to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to the AWS Resource Groups Tagging API and adds all the new metrics and tags that are specified in this document under [Collected data](#collected-data).

## Prerequisites

* [AWS Metrics from CloudWatch](https://coralogix.com/docs/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatch/aws-metrics-via-cloudwatch.md) integration with version `0.5.0` or higher.

* Policy permissions used for this integration:

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  * `elasitcache:DescribeCacheClusters`
  * `elasticache:ListResourceTags`

## Configuration

* `ElastiCacheEnhancedMonitoring` toggle in the [AWS Metrics from CloudWatch](https://coralogix.com/docs/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatch/aws-metrics-via-cloudwatch.md) integration configuration

## Collected data

### Metrics

| Metric Name                                                | Dimensions                  | Description               |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ElastiCache\_Cluster\_AllocatedVCPU   | CacheClusterId              | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ElastiCache\_Cluster\_AllocatedMemory | CacheClusterId              | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ElastiCache\_Cluster\_NumNodes        | CacheClusterId              | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ElastiCache\_Cluster\_Status          | CacheClusterId              | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ElastiCache\_Node\_Status             | CacheClusterId, CacheNodeId | cluster node metric       |

### Tags

* `CacheNodeType` - For example `cache.r6g.2xlarge`, `cache.m6g.8xlarge`, etc.
* `Engine` - The name of the cache engine (`memcached` or `redis`) to be used for elasti-cache cluster.
* `EngineVersion` - The version of the cache engine that is used in elasti-cache cluster.
* `CacheNodeId` - The cache node identifier. A node ID is a numeric identifier (0001, 0002, etc.).