Setting up AWS monitoring
A lot of infrastructure is moving toward the cloud these days, and it’s important to keep an eye on this infrastructure as much as you would if it were your own hardware. In this recipe, we are going to discover how to monitor EC2 instances, Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, and S3 buckets with our Zabbix setup.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we are going to need our AWS cloud with at least one of the following three resources:
- EC2 instances
- RDS instances
- S3 buckets
Of course, we will also need our Zabbix server, which we’ll call lar-book-rocky in this recipe.
Important note
Using Amazon CloudWatch is not free, so you will incur costs. Make sure you check out the Amazon pricing for AWS CloudWatch before proceeding: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/.
How to do it…
Setting up AWS monitoring might seem like a daunting task at first, but once we get the hang of the technique, it...
