CloudWatch agent CPU collected metrics not displayed

I have installed CloudWatch agent on an EC2 micro instance running Ubuntu 16, mainly following this very good tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAnIhIwE5hY The tutorial shows the installation on a Windows instance but more than 90% of the explanations are working just fine on Linux too.

After I finished the installation, the CloudWatch collected metrics started to show just fine on my AWS CloudWatch console, except the CPU related metrics which are nowhere to be found.

Below is my json config file which I used. All the defined metrics are accessible except the CPU related ones ("cpu_usage_idle","cpu_usage_iowait","cpu_usage_user","cpu_usage_system")

I created the json using the wizard.

Is there anything extra I should do in order to have those metrics available?

{
    "agent": {
        "metrics_collection_interval": 60,
        "run_as_user": "root"
    },
    "metrics": {
        "append_dimensions": {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "${aws:AutoScalingGroupName}",
            "ImageId": "${aws:ImageId}",
            "InstanceId": "${aws:InstanceId}",
            "InstanceType": "${aws:InstanceType}"
        },
        "metrics_collected": {
            "collectd": {
                "metrics_aggregation_interval": 60
            },
            "cpu": {
                "measurement": [
                    "cpu_usage_idle",
                    "cpu_usage_iowait",
                    "cpu_usage_user",
                    "cpu_usage_system"
                ],
                "metrics_collection_interval": 60,
                "totalcpu": false
            },
            "disk": {
                "measurement": [
                    "used_percent",
                    "inodes_free"
                ],
                "metrics_collection_interval": 60,
                "resources": [
                    "*"
                ]
            },
            "diskio": {
                "measurement": [
                    "io_time"
                ],
                "metrics_collection_interval": 60,
                "resources": [
                    "*"
                ]
            },
            "mem": {
                "measurement": [
                    "mem_used_percent",
                    "mem_free"
                ],
                "metrics_collection_interval": 60
            },
            "statsd": {
                "metrics_aggregation_interval": 60,
                "metrics_collection_interval": 10,
                "service_address": ":8125"
            },
            "swap": {
                "measurement": [
                    "swap_used_percent"
                ],
                "metrics_collection_interval": 60
            }
        }
    }
}