For all your servers in the cloud that you provision through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, monitoring is an integral part for maintaining security, availability, and an acceptable level of performance for these servers, as well as applications running on those servers. AWS provides multiple manuals as well as automated solutions for monitoring your EC2 instances comprehensively. AWS recommends having a monitoring plan in place to effectively monitor your EC2 instances so that you can have reactive as well as proactive measures in place in the event of an incident.
A typical monitoring plan contains the following information:
- Identify resources to be monitored
- Define tools for monitoring these resources
- Choose metrics to be monitored for these resources
- Define thresholds for these metrics
- Set alarms for these thresholds with actions
- Identify...
