AWS Health Monitoring default checks and policies

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    Summary of AWS Health Monitoring Default Checks and Policies

    The AWS Health Monitoring Agent Client Collector provides default checks and policies for monitoring various AWS resources, including EC2 instances, EBS volumes, S3 buckets, RDS instances, and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs). These checks enable you to gather metrics efficiently across different AWS services.

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    Key Features

    • EC2 Metrics: Monitor EC2 instances with options to filter by tags and specify batch size for parallel data fetching.
    • EBS Metrics: Retrieve metrics for EBS volumes, allowing similar filtering and batch size adjustments.
    • S3 Metrics: Obtain metrics for S3 buckets with batch size specifications for performance optimization.
    • RDS Metrics: Access metrics for RDS instances with flexible filtering options.
    • Elastic Load Balancers: Monitor metrics across classic, network, and application ELBs with options to exclude specific load balancers by name.
    • DynamoDB Metrics: Track the health of DynamoDB tables, allowing for exclusion of certain tables and batch size configuration.
    • ECS Metrics: Monitor ECS clusters and services with filtering capabilities and batch processing settings.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing these default checks and policies, customers can effectively monitor and analyze the performance of their AWS resources, leading to improved operational efficiency and resource management. The ability to filter and customize batch sizes allows for tailored monitoring based on specific needs and environments.

    Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for AWS monitoring.

    Table 1. AWS Metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Usage example
    Metric aws.metrics-ec2 Returns metrics of all EC2 instances in a AWS Datacenter.

    metrics-ec2.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter EC2 instances by tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of instances to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-ec2.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:Name,values:[Instance1,Instance2]}"

    Provide the filter string along with double quotes ("") around the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-ebs Returns metrics of all EBS volumes in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-ebs.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter EBS Volumes by Tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of volumes to fetch metrics parallelly. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-ebs.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:Name,values:[Volume1,Volume2]}"

    Provide filter string along with double quotes ("") for the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-s3 Returns metrics of all S3 buckets in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-s3.rb (options)

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of S3 buckets to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-s3.rb -b 5

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-rds Returns metrics of all RDS buckets in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-rds.rb (options)

    -F, --filter FILTER String representation of the filter to filter RDS Instances by tags.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    		 ./metrics-rds.rb -F "{name:tag:environment,values:[ENV1,ENV2]} {name:tag:engine,values:[MariaDB]}"

    Provide the filter string with double quotes ("") around the filter parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-classic-elb Returns metrics of all classic elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains one of the comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t classic -e "classic,itom,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.
    Metric aws.metrics-network-elb Returns metrics of all network elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains any of the comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t network -e "vpc,itom,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.

    Do not change the command prefix.
    Metric aws.metrics-application-elb Returns metrics of all application elastic load balancers in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-elb.rb (options)

    -e, --exclude_lb EXCLUDE_LB Exclude metrics from load balancers whose name contains any one of the string from comma separated strings.

    -b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE Batch size. Number of databases to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)

    ./metrics-elb.rb -t application -e "classic,app,ip" -b 10

    Provide comma separated strings in double quotes ("") for the exclude_lb parameter.

    Set the batch_size parameter according to the agent environment.

    Do not change the command prefix.
    Metric aws.metrics-ec2-count Returns count of EC2 instances by instance_type or status in an AWS datacenter.

    metrics-ec2-count.rb (options)

    -s, --scheme SCHEME Metric naming scheme, text to prepend to metric. Default: aws.ec2

    -t, --type METRIC type Count by type: status, instance. Default: instance

    ./metrics-ec2-count.rb -t status

    ./metrics-ec2-count.rb -t status -s metric.aws.ec2
    Table 2. AWS DynamoDB metrics
    Type Check Description Usage Command
    Metric aws.metrics-dynamodb Monitors the health of DynamoDB tables in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the DynamoDB table (cmdb_ci_dynamodb_table)

    e, --exclude_tb EXCLUDE_TB

    Exclude metrics from tables whose name contains a string from comma separated strings.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of tables to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-dynamodb.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_exclude_tb}} -f {{.labels.params_exclude_tb}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}
    Table 3. AWS EC2 metrics
    Type Check Description Usage Command
    Metric aws.metrics-ecs-cluster Monitors ECS clusters in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the AWS ECS Cluster CI type (cmdb_ci_cloud_ecs_cluster)

    -F, --filter FILTER

    String representation of the filter to filter ECS clusters by tags.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of clusters to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-ecs-cluster.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_filter}} -f {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}
    Metric aws.metrics-ecs-service Monitors ECS services in an AWS datacenter.

    Binds to the AWS ECS Service CI type (cmdb_ci_cloud_ecs_service)

    -F, --filter FILTER

    String representation of the filter to filter ECS clusters by tags.

    b, --batch_size BATCH_SIZE

    Batch size. Number of clusters to fetch metrics in parallel. (Default value: 10)    		 metrics-ecs-service.rb -r {{.labels.params_ci_region}} {{.labels.params_filter}} -f {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}} {{.labels.params_batch_size}} -b {{.labels.params_filter}} {{end}}