ec2base

http://monitorcloud.com/monitorcloud

The main monitoring features of Monitis Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 cloud storage on-demand cloud monitoring service are: external monitoring of launched Amazon virtual servers and generate notifications to users upon breaking the threshold level, dynamically and adaptively monitor web servers, mail servers, databases etc without the need of manually adding each monitor and rules per server, automatically install Monitis agent on new servers and monitor performance metrics plus generate notifications when resources are detected to be low, proactive notification to users if a server is lost in the Amazon cloud.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1967452/ec2-and-login-logging

Hello – I have set up several EC2 instances and intend to give multiple users access to them via SSH. Is there any file on the server that monitors who logs in and when?

SSH logins are usually logged automatically in /var/log/auth.log. You can grep this file to check who logged in and when.

http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/10/16/ec2-and-ganglia/

I’ve been playing around with Ganglia for the past couple of days, trying to make it to work with EC2. It was a bit of an adventure. There are two keys for running Ganglia on EC2: use unicast and set send_metadata_interval.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1761609/whats-a-good-way-to-collect-logs-from-amazon-ec2-instances

I haven’t implemented it yet, but I came across Facebook Scribe, and it seems like a good idea. http://developers.facebook.com/scribe/

Have a look at the free version of Splunk – it will handle the remote log file collection and also give you some really nice search and analysis tools.

http://browsermob.com/performance-testing

Website Monitoring

* Control 2K+ real browsers; 25K+ virtual users
* Extends popular Selenium open source tooklit
* No lock-in: direct MySQL access to your data
* Provides real-time reporting for fast debugging
* Captures screenshots of failures to help debug
* Affordable: costs as little as 7.5 ¢ per user

http://decaf.9apps.net/

Decaf! No need for allnighters anymore. Time to change your t-shirts, no need for caffeine anymore. You can have 1 or 2 servers, or hundreds, with Decaf you always know the health of your cloud. And if necessary you have all the tools to make repairs.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=147614

Unless you are using the auto-scaling service, which has a monitoring component, there is no monitoring offered by Amazon.

Personally, I have my monitoring run on a small instance in Amazon, and then a very simple script that runs on a box in the office to monitor that one host from the outside.

This one wins.