[SOLVED] Boto3 - Print AWS Instance Average CPU Utilization

Issue

I am trying to print out just the averaged CPU utilization of an AWS instance. This code will print out the 'response' but the for loop at the end isn't printing the averaged utilization. Could someone assist? Thank you in advance!

    import boto3
    import sys
    from datetime import datetime, timedelta
        client = boto3.client('cloudwatch')
        response = client.get_metric_statistics(
            Namespace='AWS/EC2',
            MetricName='CPUUtilization',
            Dimensions=[
                {
                'Name': 'InstanceId',
                'Value': 'i-1234abcd'
                },
            ],
            StartTime=datetime(2018, 4, 23) - timedelta(seconds=600),
            EndTime=datetime(2018, 4, 24),
            Period=86400,
            Statistics=[
                'Average',
            ],
            Unit='Percent'
        )
    for cpu in response:
        if cpu['Key'] == 'Average':
            k = cpu['Value']
    print(k)

This is the error message I am getting:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\bin\TestCW-CPU.py", line 25, in <module>
        if cpu['Key'] == 'Average':
    TypeError: string indices must be integers

Solution

This will output the average CPU:

    for k, v in response.items():
        if k == 'Datapoints':
        for y in v:
            print(y['Average'])

Answered By - jmoorhead

Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (WPSolving Volunteer)