Siphon off and archive CloudWatch Metrics.
$ siphon -h
Usage of siphon:
-baseDir string
Base directory to store datapoint file structure. (default "/tmp/cloudwatch")
-end string
End date for datapoint collection. (ex. 2006-Jan-02)
-period int
Period is the length of time associated with a specific CloudWatch statistic. (default 300)
-region string
AWS Region to siphon metrics. (default "us-east-1")
-start string
Start date for datapoint collection. (ex. 2006-Jan-02)go get -u github.com/linuturk/siphonErrors can appear related to opening files or sockets if your user's ulimit is too low for the number of metrics you are saving. Increase your ulimit to avoid this problem.
ulimit -n 10000