Monitoring single instances

• Create a EC2 instance

  • Ubuntu 18.04 AMI
  • Windows 2016 Server AMI

• Inbuilt graphs are rendered by AWS once the instance is created.

• Now navigate to Cloudwatch Service and Click on Metrics

Creating a Graph for Monitoring CPU, DISK and Network on Linux Instance

• Navigate to Per-Instance Metrics, Select the Ubuntu Machine with following Metrics
  • CPU Utilization
  • Disk WriteOps
  • Disk ReadOps
  • Network PacketsIn
  • Network PacketsOut
• Change the graph type to Number
• Add this graph to Dashboard

Creating a Graph for Monitoring CPU, DISK and Network on Windows Instance

• Navigate to Per-Instance Metrics, Select the Windows Machine with following Metrics
  • CPU Utilization
  • Disk WriteOps
  • Disk ReadOps
  • Network PacketsIn
  • Network PacketsOut
• Change the graph type to Number
• Add this graph to Dashboard

Creating an Area Graph Comparing CPU Utilization of Windows and Ubuntu Instances

• Navigate to Per-Instance Metrics, Select the Ubuntu Machine and Windows Machine with following Metric
  • CPU Utilization
• Change the graph type to Stacked
• Add this graph to Dashboard

Exercise

• Create a Line Graph Comparing Network Packets In for Windows and Ubuntu Instances
• Create a Number Comparing Network Package Out for Windows and Ubuntu Instances.