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That seemed to be the issue: on a system with lower load it was a non-issue and I started to see the problems as the load increased.

Thank you for the help!

I do have several checks that use the plug-in, and they tend to show this issue on the same host around the same time. define service { use generic-service service_description Amazon API EC2 - CPU Utilization servicegroups API-status, API-status-EC2 hosts as.ap1.site.com check_command check_cloudwat...

Hi Everyone, I'm currently using the Check_AWS_CloudWatch_metrics plugin, found here: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/*-Virtual-Environments/Others/Check_AWS_CloudWatch_metrics/details to monitor some Amazon instances. Most of the time it works fine, but repeatedly thr...