Recently, we discussed about Komiser – a tool to monitor your AWS account that is free and supports many of the most used services. We have this tool installed and overall it’s a very good choice for this specific use case. Today we want to show you another similar tool, named Blue Matador. This one […]
Tag: monitoring
Get notifications when a change occurs to your Beanstalk environment
Elastic Beanstalk gives you the possibility of receiving notifications via email when a change occurs to your environment: new instances added, environment health modified or a different artifact is going to be deployed. As when we talk about security, there is never enough monitoring. 🙂 In order to enable this, the simplest setup is to […]
Monitor your AWS account with Komiser
This post is about a tool that gives you centralized information about AWS resources you are using. We installed Komiser in less than 5 minutes. And the documentation being very detailed and artifacts for installing for almost all platforms. We really like the fact that in a single dashboard you have detailed what resources you […]
CloudWatch metrics publisher using text files
A while ago, we wrote an article where we presented a library written by us that could help you reducing the CloudWatch bill based on a very simple idea: since you are charged per number of API calls, publish metrics in batches instead of publish them one by one. In the initial release of that […]
CloudWatch can be cheaper
CloudWatch is the solution provided by Amazon to monitor your AWS resources, but also your service behaviour. Most probably, if you have ever used DynamoDB or EC2, you noticed some nice graphs with statistics about a table or about an EC2 instance. Most of the AWS services provide by default and for free some basic […]
Monitor records import into Redshift
Let’s imagine that we have an application where new entries are constantly loaded into Redshift. Recently we published a blog post in which some best practices about data imports were presented and another one where was described a way to organize tables if your use case implies frequent data imports. But enough with the bounce, […]