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AWS autoscaling documentation change

Service: autoscaling · 2025-04-11 · Documentation low

File: autoscaling/application/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.md

Summary

Expanded ElastiCache metrics documentation to include Valkey and Memcached support

Security assessment

Added monitoring metrics for new service features without security implications

Diff

diff --git a/autoscaling/application/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.md b/autoscaling/application/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.md
index b0c2a516f..a55f405f1 100644
--- a//autoscaling/application/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.md
+++ b//autoscaling/application/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.md
@@ -47,4 +47,6 @@ Services | AWS/ApplicationELB |  Name: RequestCountPerTarget Dimension: TargetGr
-Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: DatabaseMemoryUsageCountedForEvictPercentage Dimension: ReplicationGroupId | [ElastiCache (Redis OSS) metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
-Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: DatabaseCapacityUsageCountedForEvictPercentage Dimension: ReplicationGroupId | [ElastiCache (Redis OSS) metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
-Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: EngineCPUUtilization Dimensions: ReplicationGroupId, Role (Primary) | [ElastiCache (Redis OSS) metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
-Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: EngineCPUUtilization Dimensions: ReplicationGroupId, Role (Replica) | [ElastiCache (Redis OSS) metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
+Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: DatabaseMemoryUsageCountedForEvictPercentage Dimension: ReplicationGroupId | [ElastiCache Valkey and Redis OSS metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
+Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: DatabaseCapacityUsageCountedForEvictPercentage Dimension: ReplicationGroupId | [ElastiCache Valkey and Redis OSS metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
+Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: EngineCPUUtilization Dimensions: ReplicationGroupId, Role (Primary) | [ElastiCache Valkey and Redis OSS metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
+Clusters (replication groups) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: EngineCPUUtilization Dimensions: ReplicationGroupId, Role (Replica) | [ElastiCache Valkey and Redis OSS metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Redis.html)  
+Clusters (cache) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: EngineCPUUtilization Dimensions: CacheClusterId, Node | [ElastiCache Memcached metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Memcached.html)  
+Clusters (cache) | AWS/ElastiCache |  Name: DatabaseCapacityMemoryUsagePercentage Dimensions: CacheClusterId | [ElastiCache Memcached metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/CacheMetrics.Memcached.html)  
@@ -101,0 +104,2 @@ Predefined metric type | CloudWatch metric name
+`ElastiCacheEngineCPUUtilization` | EngineCPUUtilization  
+`ElastiCacheDatabaseMemoryUsagePercentage` | DatabaseMemoryUsagePercentage