Amazon Web Services (AWS) Monitoring

Monitor the availability and resource utilization of your Amazon EC2, RDS instances, EBS volumes and troubleshoot problems through root cause analysis. Ensure optimal capacity planning through in-depth Amazon S3 metrics.

Obtain Access Key and Secret Access Key

1. Login to your AWS account.
2. Select Security Credentials from the drop down under your username.
   
    
3. Select Access Keys ( Access Key ID and Secret Access Key).
   
    
4. Click on Create New Access Key.
   
    
5. A Create Access Key screen with the message " Your access key has been created successfully"  appears. Click Show Access Key to view the details.
   
    
6.  Click on Download Key File to download the file containing your access key ID and secret access key.
   
    

Add a AWS Monitor

1. Login to Site24x7.
2. Click Admin > Inventory > Monitors > Add Monitor.
3. Select Amazon Web Services in the Add Monitor screen.
4. Specify the following details to configure the monitor:
   Display Name: Provide a label for the AWS monitor added.
   Secret Access Key: Specify the Secret key of your AWS account provided by Amazon. Refer here on how to obtain the secret access key.
   Access Key ID: Specify the Access key of your AWS account. This is provided by Amazon at the time of signup for your AWS account.
   
5. Click Discover AWS Resources to submit.