EC2 Instance Monitoring Disabled

• Query id: 0264093f-6791-4475-af34-4b8102dcbcd0
• Query name: EC2 Instance Monitoring Disabled
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Observability
• CWE: 778
• URL: Github

Description

EC2 Instance should have detailed monitoring enabled. With detailed monitoring enabled data is available in 1-minute periods
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
  MyEC2Instance:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      ImageId: ami-12345678
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      Monitoring: false

Positive test num. 2 - yaml file

Resources:
  MyEC2Instance:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      ImageId: ami-12345678
      InstanceType: t2.micro

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
  MyEC2Instance:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      ImageId: ami-12345678
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      Monitoring: true