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AWS monitoring alerts via SMS

Are you a texting ninja that gets their info fixes via short messages? Ylastic can send you AWS alerts via SMS. If you want to receive an SMS on an international number, just append a +CountryCode to the phone number on the settings page :-)

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Filed under  //   EC2   alerts   aws   elb   mobile   monitoring   rds   scaling  

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Ylastic Dashboard Redux

So, last night SQS had an issue where some of the API calls were not working. How does something like that show up in your Ylastic dashboard?

The dashboard page displays icons for each of the AWS regions - green good, red bad. If you look at the screenshot below, you see a flashing red icon in the US East region in North Virginia.

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Just click the red icon to display a visualization of your EC2/RDS instances in the US East region. At the top, there is a list of services in that region. Again, you will see SQS flashing red. Hmm, something wrong with the service? Hover over it to display the current issue with that service. 

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If you were monitoring instances, and an alert was triggered, the specific EC2/RDS instances will also be flashing red. Manage your cloud, the easy way !

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   monitoring   rds  

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Additional Monitors for EC2 Instances

Ylastic now has additional monitors for keeping an eye on those EC2 instances.

  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • HTTPS Strict Check - the SSL certificate CN and the hostname must match
  • SSH
  • Ping
  • DNS resolution for the instance public address
  • Reverse DNS resolution for the instance elastic IP address

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You can get the alerts for these monitors any way you want. Here is a sample email alert.

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Here is an alert via twitter as viewed in Twhirl.

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These are in addition to the AWS resources you can already monitor with Ylastic.

  • EC2 Instances
  • RDS Databases
  • EBS Volumes
  • AWS Service Health
  • Usage Costs
  • Scaling activities
  • Load Balancers

 

Filed under  //   EC2   alerts   aws   monitoring  

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Monitoring instances, load balancers and autoscaling on EC2

Ylastic makes it super simple to monitor your CloudWatch enabled instances and elastic load balancers, along with autoscaling activities.

  • Enable CloudWatch for the instances you want to monitor.

  • Select the monitors you want and set their threshold.

That's all there is to it ! Now kick back and get your alerts via Email, Twitter or Jabber/GoogleTalk.

You can also visualize all of the CloudWatch data and zero in on the metrics for the time span that you want.

We have free one week evaluation versions available if you want to check out Ylastic. Please send an email to support at ylastic.com for the activation code and details.

Filed under  //   EC2   alerts   aws   monitoring  

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