Not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I've got plenty of ec2 experience. If you just want an email notification when load reaches a certain level you can just create a shell script that runs at login on your machine image, something like the following:
http://bash.cyberciti.biz/monitoring/monitor-unix-linux-system-load/ You'll want to adjust the notification threshold based on however many virtual processors your particular instance size presents (ie. 1.0 * CPUs). On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone using Amazon's EC2? I have a simple question I can't seem to find > the answer to -- how do I tell if my application is CPU bound on the > instance without using CloudWatch? My GoogleFu fails me. (I have a couple > m1.large instances) > Stan
