Tailoring Data Collector schedules
Last Updated
March 2024
Tailoring Data Collector schedules
The CloudFormation template for the Data Collection framework allows you to define two different schedules for collecting data. One schedule controls the Trusted Advisor, Cost Optimization Hub, Compute Optimizer, Organizations Data, Rightsizing, RDS Utilization, Inventory Collector, Transit Gateway, Backup, and ECS Chargeback modules. That schedule defaults to every 14 days, which should work well for those datasets in most cases. A second schedule is provided for the Cost Anomalies and Budgets modules, for which there are use cases that benefit from more frequent updating. The default frequency for those is daily. In both cases, you can override the template defaults and the set of modules that each schedule governs will be affected accordingly.
However, your use cases may differ from those two generalizations such that you may wish to tailor the schedule more granularly for individual modules. Because the CloudFormation template ultimately deploys a dedicated EventBridge schedule for each module, you can easily adjust any module’s schedule to suit your needs. The following steps will show you how to apply such customizations.
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Navigate to the Schedules
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Find and select the schedule that you want to change. All schedules for the Data Collection framework will be named starting with the prefix you defined at deployment (for example, "CID-DC-"). The rest of the name corresponds to the module name.
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Click Edit
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On the Specify schedule detail page, scroll down to the Schedule pattern section.
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From there you can adjust the Rate expression to suit your needs. Note: You can also change to a cron-based definition as well as make adjustments to the flexibility of your time window.
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After you make your adjustments, click the Skip to Review and save schedule button.
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Review your new schedule and click Save schedule at the bottom of the page to complete the change.
