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Configure default threshold profiles, automatically create monitor groups using native AWS tags, customize the AWS guidance report, suppress alerts for informational events, get notified when you run out of basic monitor units and more.
Sync internal DNS name for EC2 Auto Scaling Instance: When this option is toggled ON, EC2 Auto Scaling Instances will have the same display name as that of its internal DNS address.
Sync display name: The display name can be made same as that of the name tag of the specific resource when this option is toggled ON. By defult, this toggle switch will be ON. If your instance is integrated with the server agent, the server agent name will also be changed to name tag.
Notify for EC2 scheduled events: Amazon Web Services (AWS) performs updates on the host computers powering your EC2 instances by scheduling events like reboot, stop/start, or retirement. By selecting the toggle to Yes, you can receive an email notification whenever a monitored EC2 instance is affected by a scheduled event.
Site24x7 sends the email to the email address associated with the Site24x7 super admin contact.
Mark stopped resources as maintenance: You can choose to put a stopped or disabled AWS resource into Site24x7's maintenance window by toggling to Yes. We will remove the resource from maintenance once it transitions from stopped (or) disabled to the active state. This does not apply to the Auto Scaling EC2 instances.
By default, when an AWS resource moves to the stopped or disabled state, the status of the corresponding monitor in the Site24x7 console will move to Down, triggering an email alert. By selecting the toggle to yes, you not only change the status to under maintenance but also suppress the alert.
Notify for basic monitor license units exhaustion: In Site24x7 a monitored instance of an AWS cloud service is considered a basic monitor (Example: EC2 instance, SQS queue, SNS topic, CloudFront distribution, DynamoDB table and so on). By selecting the toggle to Yes, you'll receive an email notification whenever basic monitor units of your Site24x7 subscription plan gets exhausted.
Site24x7 sends the email to the email address associated with the Site24x7 super admin contact. If you've enabled the stop rediscovery option, no email notification would be sent.
Stop rediscovery during basic monitor license units exhaustion: Rediscovery helps Site24x7 monitor newly provisioned instances of any supported AWS cloud service. By selecting the toggle to Yes you can stop rediscovery whenever basic monitor license limit occurs for your Site24x7 subscription.
Sync server agent name for integrated monitors: Toggle to Yes, to synchronize the server agent name for all the server integrated monitors. By default, this toggle will be No. The name synchronization occurs during the integration process only and not during each service discovery or data collection. For integration supported monitors, if both 'Sync display name with AWS console' and 'Sync server agent name for integrated monitors' are toggled to Yes, the latter will be given priority.
Auto create Monitor Group: When toggled to Yes, we automatically create a monitor group for your account which facilitates a business view, but when toggled to No the monitor group (if any created) will be removed in the next poll.
Tags: The tags assigned will be applicable for all the resources in the account.
Create monitor groups using native AWS tags: Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to assign metadata in the form of tags (key-value pairs) to help effectively manage resources. Now you can leverage these same tags to automatically to create logical groups of resources (Monitor Groups) in the Site24x7 console.
Example:
Tags for all resources: Associate tags to all your AWS resources in the account. These tags won't apply to the Amazon monitor.
Assign different polling intervals for different AWS services: During monitor discovery, you can assign different polling intervals ranging from as low as a minute, to different AWS services. This can be done based on Tags, Monitor Groups or Monitor Types. Click here to learn more about this.
Mute resource termination alerts:
Automatically remove terminated resources:
Configure a default threshold profile for each supported AWS service: You can configure a default threshold profile for each supported service that gets automatically assigned to new instances of that particular service as and when it is discovered.
You can change the selected metric, threshold values, alert strategies and the mapped automation of the default threshold profile anytime.
You can also choose to apply the newly modified default threshold profile to all existing monitors of the AWS service, by clicking the toggle and switching it to Yes. Alternatively, you can choose to apply the modified threshold profile to only newly discovered instances of the said cloud service by keeping the toggle as No.
Enable all best practice checks and use default baselines: Site24x7's Guidance report analyzes your AWS account using our 24 best practice recommendation checks and provides insights to reduce costs and improve performance. If you want to enable all checks and use default baselines keep the toggle at Yes, if you're going to choose the recommendations and configure custom baselines (only applicable for the following checks: idle EC2 instances, underutilized EC2 instances, idle load balancers and load balancer with fewer than "n" healthy targets) select the toggle to No.
How can I create a new baseline for the Idle EC2 instances check?
You can enable or disable recommendation checks and configure new baselines anytime.
Once changed, it would take one week (from the last guidance report generated time) for the report UI in the Site24x7 console to get updated with the new changes. However you can update the report UI immediately by scheduling the guidance report and sending it to an user group.
Help Amazon Web Services Advanced Configurations