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title: AWS Trusted Advisor integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-trusted-advisor-integration
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> #### 💡 TIP
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> In order to use this integration, you must have an AWS Business or Enterprise [support plan](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/).

The AWS [Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/) is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you follow AWS best practices for provisioning your resources.

[New Relic infrastructure integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/introduction-infra-monitoring) include an integration for reporting your service limits data to New Relic products. This document explains how to activate this integration and describes the data that can be captured.

## Activate integration [#activate]

To enable this integration, follow standard procedures to [connect AWS services to New Relic](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/getting-started/connect-aws-integrations-infrastructure).

> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
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> This integration requires additional access permissions not covered by default managed policies. You can find out more on [Integrations and managed policies](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/integrations/amazon-integrations/getting-started/integrations-managed-policies#recommended) page.

## Configuration and polling [#polling]

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using [configuration options](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/integrations/new-relic-integrations/getting-started/configure-polling-frequency-data-collection-cloud-integrations).

[Default polling](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-polling-intervals-infrastructure-integrations) information for the AWS Trusted Advisor integration:

-   New Relic polling interval: 1 hour

In order to have fresh data, New Relic programmatically sends refresh requests to AWS. Trusted Advisor checks are [automatically refreshed by AWS weekly](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/faqs/#TArefresh) only for customers with AWS Business or Enterprise Support plans.

## View and use data [#find-data]

To [view and use your integration data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data), go to **[one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > AWS** and select the AWS Trusted Advisor integration link.

You can [query and explore your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/using-new-relic/data/understand-data/query-new-relic-data) using the `TrustedAdvisorSample` [event type](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#event-data) within one category of data:

-   Service limits: Appears in New Relic with `provider` value `ServiceLimits`.

## Metric data

There is one `Trusted Advisor` category of data: `ServiceLimits`.

### Service limits metrics [#metric-service-limits]

Our Amazon integrations collect the following Amazon Service limits data to the provider `ServiceLimits`.

| Metric              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `awsRegion`         | The AWS region in which the identified resource is located. Can be absent for global services that do not have regions.                                                                                                                                 |
| `checkId`           | The unique identifier of the AWS Trusted Advisor check.                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `currentUsage`      | Current usage of service limit in region.                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| `isSuppressed`      | If the item is excluded from the check result. The excluded items appear separately in AWS console.                                                                                                                                                     |
| `limitAmount`       | Current maximum of service limit in region.                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| `limitName`         | Name of the service limit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| `service`           | Name of the service.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| `serviceLimitUsage` | Percentage of service limit used.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| `status`            | Status of the service limit. Can be one of: `Green`: Service limit usage is below 80%. `Yellow`: Service limit usage is between 80% and 100%. `Red`: Service limit usage is 100%. `Blue`: Trusted Advisor was unable to retrieve utilization or limits. |
| `timestamp`         | The time of the last refresh of the check.                                                                                                                                                                                                              |