Cloud Monitoring

Site24x7 AWS monitoring is an API driven service to monitor your critical cloud resources - Amazon EC2, RDS instances and S3 buckets. Indepth data on the availability, resource utilization and downtime status of these services are fetched from Amazon web server through Amazon Cloudwatch. The metrics are displayed using easy to understand graphs and charts in the Site24x7 console. By entrusting your cloud resources in our hands, you can be assured of effective capacity planning through the optimal utilization of critical components such as CPU, network, storage space and more. In addition, our smart alerting mechanism notifies you instantly through Email alerts as per the downtime notification settings configured by you making sure your end users remain unaffected.

Amazon Web Services Monitoring Architecture

In order to create an AWS monitor, you need to provide your Secure Key and Access Key obtained at the time of signing up for an AWS account. The credentials are verified at the AWS server which is followed by the auto-discovery of EC2, RDS and S3 buckets associated with your account in no time. Each instance is added as a separate monitor in the Site24x7 console and are displayed by their unique Instance ID. Data collection follows suit by polling the Amazon Cloudwatch using an API request at a frequency of 5 minutes and obtaining critical performance metrics which are visually represented through graphs and charts.

We also make sure uninterrupted service is made available to you despite a datacenter failure at our end by means of a secondary datacenter - the Disaster Recovery Datacenter (DRDC). In case the communication from primary data center does not happen within the set period, DRDC takes over ensuring your cloud resources are monitored without hindrance.

Now to get started on how to add a AWS Monitor, refer here.