AWS Trusted Advisor Monitoring
AWS Trusted Advisor - Overview
AWS Trusted Advisor is an AWS service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations to help you follow AWS best practices across five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. It continuously analyzes your resource configurations and usage to help you reduce costs, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps.
Applications Manager's AWS Trusted Advisor monitoring tool provides centralized visibility into the health and compliance posture of your AWS account. By tracking key metrics such as check counts by status (action recommended, investigation recommended, and no problem detected) and per-check resource details, the tool enables teams to proactively address flagged issues, monitor trends over time, and maintain alignment with AWS best practices.
Note: AWS Trusted Advisor monitoring requires an AWS account with a Business or Enterprise Support plan. This monitor uses the AWS Support API global endpoint and is not available for accounts on the Basic or Developer Support plans or in China regions.
Creating a new AWS Trusted Advisor monitor
To learn how to create a new AWS Trusted Advisor monitor, refer here.
Monitored Parameters
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on the Trusted Advisor instance available under Amazon in the Cloud Apps section. Displayed below is the AWS Trusted Advisor bulk configuration view, distributed into three tabs:
- Availability tab gives the availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
- Performance tab gives the health status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
- List view tab enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.
By clicking a monitor from the list, you'll be taken to the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard, which includes the following tabs:
Performance Overview
| Parameter | Description |
|---|
| CHECK SUMMARY |
| Action Recommended Checks | The total number of checks with an action-recommended status at the time of polling. |
| Investigation Recommended Checks | The total number of checks with an investigation recommended status at the time of polling. |
| No Problem Detected Checks | The total number of checks with a no-problem-detected status at the time of polling. |
| Unknown Checks | The total number of checks with a not available status at the time of polling. |
| Total Checks | The total number of checks in this category at the time of polling. |
| RESOURCE SUMMARY |
| Flagged Resources | The total number of flagged resources across all checks at the time of polling. |
| Processed Resources | The total number of processed resources across all checks at the time of polling. |
| Suppressed Resources | The total number of suppressed resources across all checks at the time of polling. |
| Ignored Resources | The total number of ignored resources across all checks at the time of polling. |
Check Details
| Parameter | Description |
|---|
| Check Details |
| Check Name | The name of the Trusted Advisor check. |
| Check Status | The current status of the Trusted Advisor check. |
| Critical Resources | The number of resources with an error (action recommended) status in this check at the time of polling. |
| Warning Resources | The number of resources with a warning (investigation recommended) status in this check at the time of polling. |
| Flagged Resources | The total number of flagged resources for this check at the time of polling. |
| Processed Resources | The total number of resources processed for this check at the time of polling. |
| Suppressed Resources | The total number of suppressed resources for this check at the time of polling. |
| Ignored Resources | The total number of ignored resources for this check at the time of polling. |
| Top 5 Flagged Resources - Displays a graphical representation of the top 5 checks with respect to their flagged resources. |
| Top 5 Critical Resources - Displays a graphical representation of the top 5 checks with respect to their critical resources. |
| Top 5 Warning Resources - Displays a graphical representation of the top 5 checks with respect to their warning resources. |
