The Cloudwatch is a hosted tool provided by the aws to monitor different resources in your Cloud Infrastructure. AWS provides you with various metrice(data) related to resources to determine its state on per minute basis which can be used to monitor and raise an alarm whenever a certain threshold is crossed. You can configure the cloudwatch with the SNS to send the notification once the state of the alarm changes.
Further you can configure the events and take any action on these alarms. The only limitation is that AWS provides you with certain metrices to monitor but there are times when you want to monitor the resources which are not provided by AWS. Like your services, established connections, processes, memory etc. For this you need to create your own custom cloudwatch metrics which you can push to the cloudwatch using the AWS Cli.
Once the metrice has been configured in the cloudwatch than you can put the alarms on these metrices. You need to push the metrice regularly using the scheduler(cron) so that the state of the alarm is ok , if its not having the relevant data of the metrice than its state would change to the insufficient and no alarm would be raised.
We are going to follow the following format while creating our custom cloudwatch plugins which would comprise of the metrice which provides the data to the cloudwatch about the state of the resource and configure the alarms on these metrices to form the overall monitoring via the cloudwatch. You need to be familiar with bash scripting to use these plugins of the cloudwatch.
We are going to follow the following directory structure and would design our scripts to follow the following design patterns starting with the appcwplugins directory which will contain following directories.
1. bin:- Executable cloudwatch plugins will go in this directory, but won't be having any configuration part.
2. conf:- Alarm configuration with cloudwatch cli and Access/Secret Key for AWS CLI along with proxy details will be this directory.
3. extra:- log rotation for the cloudwatch alarms, start and stop service for the cloudwatch alarms would be in this directory.
4. logs:- Cloudwatch logs would be in this directory.
5. script:- A script to copy the application/system logs to s3 and a script to push the metrics to the cloudwatch which would be executed by cron.
Further you can configure the events and take any action on these alarms. The only limitation is that AWS provides you with certain metrices to monitor but there are times when you want to monitor the resources which are not provided by AWS. Like your services, established connections, processes, memory etc. For this you need to create your own custom cloudwatch metrics which you can push to the cloudwatch using the AWS Cli.
Once the metrice has been configured in the cloudwatch than you can put the alarms on these metrices. You need to push the metrice regularly using the scheduler(cron) so that the state of the alarm is ok , if its not having the relevant data of the metrice than its state would change to the insufficient and no alarm would be raised.
We are going to follow the following format while creating our custom cloudwatch plugins which would comprise of the metrice which provides the data to the cloudwatch about the state of the resource and configure the alarms on these metrices to form the overall monitoring via the cloudwatch. You need to be familiar with bash scripting to use these plugins of the cloudwatch.
We are going to follow the following directory structure and would design our scripts to follow the following design patterns starting with the appcwplugins directory which will contain following directories.
1. bin:- Executable cloudwatch plugins will go in this directory, but won't be having any configuration part.
2. conf:- Alarm configuration with cloudwatch cli and Access/Secret Key for AWS CLI along with proxy details will be this directory.
3. extra:- log rotation for the cloudwatch alarms, start and stop service for the cloudwatch alarms would be in this directory.
4. logs:- Cloudwatch logs would be in this directory.
5. script:- A script to copy the application/system logs to s3 and a script to push the metrics to the cloudwatch which would be executed by cron.
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