-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:08:33 -0700 Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm also curious to know along these lines if anyone has worked with a > system (either native or with a connector) that will take advantage of > Amazon's CloudWatch metrics. I could certainly monitor things like CPU and > network utilization myself, but if AWS is already doing so, polling their > data seems like it would be easier. (Potentially cleaner? I'm undecided on > that, since it seems like it could introduce another dependency-- yet I've > never seen CloudWatch unavailable when the core EC2 services were working. > However, I may not have explored it in enough detail to see that kind of > failure, so... I remain undecided.) One of the upsides of integrating with > CloudWatch is that I can monitor the same metrics that autoscaling is > operating on, and I believe actually retrieve those thresholds as well, > rather than needing to configure them by hand (or by role in Chef, but that > would still need to be manually updated if I changed the autoscaling > parameters). I've just recently done some AWS API/SNMP/Cacti magic to pull CloudWatch stats into Cacti. Why? 1) We use Cacti for everything else, so it's more convenient/comfortable/expected for the team. 2) Longer retention of data (although at lower resolution) 3) Ability to view lots of graphs on the same page, comparing/contrasting/seeing trends. So far I've done ELB, RDS, and ElastiCache, because that's what the client is using, but the principles extend easily. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to publish technical details, but if you're interested, let me know and I can ask my boss. The SNMP side wasn't particularly hard (using net-snmp with "pass"), and the Cacti side was just a lot of interminable clicking adding Data Templates and Graph Templates and Templated Template Templates (no, I'm not bitter, not at all :)) - -- - --- Craig Miskell, System Administrator, Catalyst IT Ltd DDI: +64 4 802-0427 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRT1IFAAoJENezkH+p+mMXAWgQAJPYc92Ff2BuwhihTtPUeMjM Bb2mXdKd+mBKyaL7PDtoj9ldY18wGPpk46ZbdnQnNwXWrX0PMQ9wzpBPEdSAbMne D6DMSe/ClF9IXYdB0phl6szprvAvua8NbwU57IbVOtDGhFHpnO44A3kI91Q6HUpA HYUYN5yILfllXNf27jUklF+cbW/ivoVmZ2rxz6MY2FbPAGUyEKaRA8c0meVKH0dW staB0g2T3Isw7/tu75pmGnzhVl5QCND4D64vh5WuybNVITGx3JqM5IAAsqytHavG TmApbiBHQJimULlXnzQBE9vlJdrt60Hm8gLqrVY52nnu1uaZqnh9YlXdVBRwUYfe izoaZLsmHu1QS61F3ncIDGty5oZnykAfQ1TF8lLqpLUZPXzb22aIzRnNuXH+9EfI h8pIV7Ls01xCF/2Rz5tUH2YBIn2g8bOb4u/nx2vvG0kdVHuSyCjv9X1mYjxQaxX+ cnbwL7PMz03sQWqcAXT0D5EMbxZawmVsDT2sgPyFqg9qcFGfJD4mFH+AUukq6OpL F4nXS5BN+ssq4T8xvbd4PgEfRpO4ATgivX5zg0Fy7t/qAXpSzQQgP51KpAWmQdtt hcMMI5GTYDgbeyrTCZZVmo4nktBloRg297qNyjwSltzZTFT2P0A+pXX+CdcLi1tK 0L5dZhYBeq55sTdv4QH6 =7qFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
