Monitoring AWS
list Damien Martins
Hi all, I'm starting to work on a set of Xymon client extensions to monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. As my own use case is not very representative, could you let me know what is missing in this list ? -EC2 instances checks (only the infrastructure layer, as the OS can easily run genuine xymon client) -RDS instances -CloudWatch metrics/logs (most important, as it can be used as a central point) -CloudTrail events -S3 usage -IAM users/roles/policies (to ensure nothing changed) -CloudFormation (check stacks are not drifting from template) Feel free to tell me what service are missing, and explain the use case, the important things to check. This could be a long work, so do not expect to have something delivered before Q2.
list Sebastian Auriol
Hi Damien, That looks like a pretty good list! In case you haven't included it in EC2 and RDS: 1. upcoming scheduled AWS maintenance affecting your instances; 2. EC2 instance running low on, and/or predicted to run out of CPU credits based on utilization over the last x hours. I wish you all the best in your endeavors. Kind regards, SebA
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 08:45, Damien Martins <user-c12727b399f0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all, I'm starting to work on a set of Xymon client extensions to monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. As my own use case is not very representative, could you let me know what is missing in this list ? -EC2 instances checks (only the infrastructure layer, as the OS can easily run genuine xymon client) -RDS instances -CloudWatch metrics/logs (most important, as it can be used as a central point) -CloudTrail events -S3 usage -IAM users/roles/policies (to ensure nothing changed) -CloudFormation (check stacks are not drifting from template) Feel free to tell me what service are missing, and explain the use case, the important things to check. This could be a long work, so do not expect to have something delivered before Q2.
list Damien Martins
Hello Seb, To be honnest, due to the lack of responses, I postponed it. However, I started to work on a project that is related to AWS, and requires monitoring. So I'm changing my plans to work on the monitoring part first. I'll post my homework on github. If you have an account on Github and would like to contribute, share your username, and I'll add you as a collaborator. Regards, Le 14/08/2020 ? 14:40, SebA a ?crit?:
Hi Damien,
Have you made any progress with this?? Even the instance checks alone
would have value.
Kind regards,
SebA
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 19:43, Damien Martins <user-c12727b399f0@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-c12727b399f0@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. They are now part of the todo list ;)
Le 29/01/2020 ? 20:06, SebA a ?crit?:▸
Hi Damien, That looks like a pretty good list!? In case you haven't included it in EC2 and RDS: 1. upcoming scheduled AWS maintenance affecting your instances; 2. EC2 instance running low on, and/or predicted to run out of CPU credits based on utilization over the last x hours. I wish you all the best in your endeavors. Kind regards, SebA On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 08:45, Damien Martins <user-c12727b399f0@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-c12727b399f0@xymon.invalid>> wrote: Hi all, I'm starting to work on a set of Xymon client extensions to monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. As my own use case is not very representative, could you let me know what is missing in this list ? -EC2 instances checks (only the infrastructure layer, as the OS can easily run genuine xymon client) -RDS instances -CloudWatch metrics/logs (most important, as it can be used as a central point) -CloudTrail events -S3 usage -IAM users/roles/policies (to ensure nothing changed) -CloudFormation (check stacks are not drifting from template) Feel free to tell me what service are missing, and explain the use case, the important things to check. This could be a long work, so do not expect to have something delivered before Q2.
list Iain M Conochie
Hi Damien, I would be interested in this. My github id is shihad1972. Thanks :) Iain On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 15:44 +0200, Damien Martins via Xymon wrote: