SYS 360 Lab 9 1: Monitoring Instances with Amazon CloudWatch - JadenGil/Jaden-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Enable Detailed Monitoring:

To start things off we will want to go into EC2 through the learner lab and navigate to the instances tab:

Then we will want to select our instance and go to actions --> Monitor and Troubleshoot --> Manage detailed monitoring:

Then check enable and select confirm:

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Note from lab: Basic Monitoring (5 minute metrics) for EC2 in CLoudWatch is free. Detailed Monitoring for EC2 in CloudWatch can cost money if you have multiple instances and operations.

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Use CloudWatch to determine the maximum CPU utilization of a specific EC2 instance:

Once we have done that we want to navigate to CloudWatch and then in the sidebar select Metrics then All metrics:

Then select EC2:

Then select Per-instance metrics:

Then in the search bar enter "CPUUtilization" and you should be presented with one instance:

Then we will want to make the following changes:

Deliverable 1:

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CloudWatch Graphs in EC2 Console:

The we want to return to the EC2 Console, Select the Instance, Click on the Monitoring Tab

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Generating Alarms in CoudWatch:

Then we want to add the following inbound rule to our security group:

We then want to select the following in the actions menu:

Under the alarms tab, we just want to toggle off the following options:

Alarm thresholds settings should look like this:

Then create and start a ping to the public IP of the instance with -T at the end of the command and wait for the alarm:

Then we can see the alarm in CloudWatch:

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Turn off Detailed Monitoring

All we want to do here is uncheck "Enable" in the detailed monitoring tab: