To learn how to create a new Amazon EC2 Instance monitor, refer here.
The Amazon EC2 instances are monitored based on the parameters or the attributes listed below. These attributes provide information about the functioning of the EC2 instances. You can also configure thresholds to the numerical attributes based on these details and get notified when the thresholds are violated.
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on the EC2 Instance of Amazon monitors under the Cloud Apps Table. Displayed is the Amazon EC2 bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:
Below is an explanation of the metrics shown in the following tabs:
Note: The metrics marked with an * are collected using Amazon's Cloudwatch
This tab provides a high-level overview of the EC2 instance as well as its performance indicators.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Monitor Information | |
| Name | The name of the EC2 instance |
| Type | Denotes the type you are monitoring. |
| Health | Denotes the health (Clear, Warning, Critical) status of the EC2 instance. |
| Region Name | Name of the region where the instance is running |
| Instance Type | Indicates the type of the EC2 instance |
| State | The current state of the instance. Valid values include running, stopped, shutdown and terminated |
| Public IP Address | The IP address of the instance. |
| Platform | Indicates the platform of the instance (eg: Windows) |
| Last Polled at | Specifies the time at which the last poll was performed. |
| Next Poll at | Specifies the time at which the next poll is scheduled. |
| Today's Availability | Shows the overall availability status of the instance for the day. You can also view 7/30 reports and the current availability status of the instance. |
| CPU Utilization * | The CPU utilization of the instance |
| Network Traffic | |
| Network IN * | Incoming traffic in bytes per minute |
| Network Out * | Outgoing traffic in bytes per minute |
| Disk I/O | |
| Disk Read Ops * | The average number of disk read operations per second. |
| Disk Write Ops * | The average number of disk write operations per second. |
To collect operating system-level metrics like Memory and Disk, you must deploy the Cloud-Watch Agent inside EC2 instance. The agent will send your data to Cloud-Watch from where Applications Manager fetches and displays it in the console. Click here to know more about how you can collect metrics from Amazon ec2 instances and on-premises servers with the Cloud-Watch Agent.
Note: Fetching OS-level metrics via the Cloudwatch agent is supported from build 13740 of Applications Manager.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| MEMORY STATISTICS | |
| Available Memory | The memory available for use of the EC2 instance (in GB). |
| Used Memory | The memory currently in use (in GB). |
| MEMORY UTILIZATION | |
| Memory Utilization | The memory used on an instance in percentage. |
| Swap Utilization | The disk swap utilization in percentages |
| DISK UTILIZATION | |
| Disk Utilization | The disk space used on an instance. |
| DISK SPACE DETAILS | |
| DiskName | Name of the disk. |
| Total Disk Space | The total amount of disk space available on an instance. |
| Total Size (GB) | Total size of the disk (in GB). |
| Disk Utilization (%) | The percentage of disk space used on an instance. |
| Disk Available (GB) | The total amount of disk space available on an instance (in GB). |
| Disk Used (GB) | The total amount of disk space used by an instance (in GB). |
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| AVAILABLE MEMORY | |
| Available Memory | The memory available for use of the EC2 instance (in GB). |
| % Committed Bytes In Use | The percentage of memory in use for which space has been reserved in the paging file, should it need to be written to disk. |
| DISK UTILIZATION | |
| DiskName | Name of the disk. |
| Total Size (GB) | Total size of the disk (in GB). |
| Disk Utilization (%) | The percentage of disk space used on an instance. |
| Disk Available (GB) | The total amount of disk space available on an instance in GB. |
| Disk Used (GB) | The total amount of disk space used by an instance in GB |
This tab provides metrics about the EBS volumes attached to the EC2 instance.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Configuration | |
| Volume ID | The ID of the Amazon EBS volume. The volume and instance must be within the same Availability Zone and the instance must be running. |
| Size | The size of the volume in Giga Bytes. |
| Snapshot ID | Snapshot from which the volume was created. |
| Created Time | Time stamp when volume creation was initiated. |
| Attached Time | Time stamp when the attachment was initiated. |
| Delete on Termination | Specifies whether the Amazon EBS volume is deleted on instance termination. |
| Health | Denotes the health of the volume (clear, warning, critical) |
| Latency | |
| Idle Time * | The time period when no read or write operations were waiting to be completed in percentage(%) |
| Write Latency * | The average of the total number of seconds spent by all Write operations that completed in the period |
| Read Latency * | The average of the total number of seconds spent by all Read operations that completed in the period |
| Volume Traffic | |
| Read Bandwidth * | The sum of total number of Read operations in the period in bytes per second |
| Write Bandwidth * | The sum of total number of write operations in the period in bytes per second |
| Volume IO | |
| Read Throughput * | The sum of read operations in the period in seconds |
| Write Throughput * | The sum of write operations in the period in seconds |
| Queue Length * | The average number of read and write operation requests waiting to be completed over the period. |
This tab provides the configuration details of the EC2 instance.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Instance ID | The unique key that identifies the EC2 instance. |
| Instance Type | Indicates the type of the instance. |
| Instance Launch Time | The time at which the instance was launched |
| State | The current state of the instance. The values include running, stopped, shutdown and terminated |
| Image ID | Image ID of the AMI used to launch the instance. |
| AMILaunch Index | The AMI launch index, which can be used to find this instance within the launch group. |
| Public DNS Name | The public DNS name assigned to the instance. This DNS name is contactable from outside the Amazon EC2 network. |
| Private DNS Name | The private DNS name assigned to the instance. This DNS name can only be used inside the Amazon EC2 network. |
| Public IP Address | The IP address of the instance. |
| Private IP Address | The private IP address assigned to the instance. |
| KeyPair Name | The name of the key pair, if this instance was launched with an associated key pair. |
| Platform | Indicates the platform of the instance (eg: Windows) |
| Availability Zone | The instance's availability zone. |
| Architecture | The architecture of the image. |
| RamDisk Id | RAM disk associated with this instance. |
| Kernel Id | Kernel associated with this instance. |
| RootDevice Type | The root device type used by the AMI. The AMI can use an Amazon EBS or instance store root device. |
| RootDevice Name | The name of the root device used by the AMI. |
| Monitoring | Indicates whether monitoring is enabled for the instance. |
| Termination Protection | Indicates whether the instance can be terminated through the Amazon EC2 console, CLI, or API. If enabled, the instance cannot be terminated. |
