According to aws documentation, this is the command to install the aws-log agent:
sudo yum install -y awslogs
However since I am using ubuntu, I have to use apt-get. But the aws-log package is not available.
Is there an equivalent of the aws-log for ubuntu? If not, how can I install it?
I have a Log Group that includes several Log Streams (from several EC2 instances). Is there any way to simply "tail" the consolidated logs in the group? If I click "Search Events" that shows the consolidated logs but the button that jumps to the end of the logs is grayed out. I have to manually plug in the date and time. I also tried the aws cli, but aws logs get-log-events requires a single log stream name to be specified.
I would like to have a load balancer for my site and have the site up to date. The load balancer will take the AMI I select and spin up more of those instances when processing power hits a certain level. The problem is the AMI may not be up to date so I'll have some instances up to date and others not. When I deploy I can deploy to all the instances under the load balancer without issue, but I would need to know whenever the load balancer spins up a new instance in order to trigger this deployment. Also there would be a block of time when the updates happen greatly decreasing its responsiveness. So I've come up with a plan.
My plan:
After deploy:
identify one of the instances and
get instance id
identify volume of instance id
ec2-create-snapshot vol-yyyyyyyy
get snapshot volume id
ec2reg -s snap-zzzzzzzz -a x86 -d Description -n imagename
get image id
as-delete-launch-config existinglaunchconfig
as-create-launch-config mylaunchconfig --image-id IMAGEID --instance-type m1.small --key mykey --group mysecuritygroup
as-update-auto-scaling-group --launch-configuration mylaunchconfig
Before I go and spend however many hours trying to figure this out and scripting it all, testing, and everything else, my question is: Will this work? Is there a better way? Is there a tutorial or post that anyone knows of that would speed up my efforts on this issue? Thanks.
I have an instance running on Amazon EC2 that I turned into a webserver.
Now I have been looking at cloudwatch, but I do not know if it is the correct tool for the job. Basically I want to get informed when the server is down, for whatever reason.
Maybe the server got hacked, or the server shut down for whatever reason, I want to get a notification on that.
I have enabled clouwatch, and tried to set up a alert, but I only see things like network in-out or cpu usage, an d metrix. Now I do not know if these will do the trick.
Amazon CloudWatch has a decent console, and an alarm system which uses Amazon SNS for notifications.
Originally it only gave you AWS metrics, e.g. EC2 instance CPU utilization.
Recently they added custom metrics. You can use the CloudWatch REST API to push your own arbitrary metrics.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried to use an agent that would poll various servers (some at EC2, some not) via SNMP and/or WMI, and push those samples as custom metrics to CloudWatch? So now in CloudWatch you can see all your metrics (both AWS and not) together in one place.
Note: I understand that some monitoring tools can pull from EC2, which is another way to get everything in one place, and might be superior to some people for a variety of reasons. But I'm asking about the way where CloudWatch is the one place.
If anyone is doing this, what are you using as the agent?