Which watcher watches CloudWatch
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Product comparison of services that consume CloudWatch data and create dashboards. A talk at the AWS Melbourne user group February 2014.
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- 1. Which watcher watches cloudwatch? David Lutz @dlutzy
- 7. about me #monitoringlove #infracoders I “drive” website infrastructure
- 8. What do I mean by “drive”? Operate, anything not build related. ● Gather telemetry or metrics on running system ● Use metrics to make decisions about capacity and architecture ● Know what the bottlenecks are and when we’ll hit them ● Advise the business about cost vs performance tradeoffs ● Fix things when the break
- 9. Work with my friends the developers… They build the things I drive.
- 10. What the developers think they built
- 11. What they actually built
- 12. How operations see themselves
- 13. How dev sees ops
- 15. How fast are we going? (km/h)
- 16. How hard is the engine working (RPM)
- 18. How fast can we go before redline How far can we go before running out of fuel (Thresholds)
- 19. How fast are we going? latency (ms)
- 20. How hard are the servers working? throughput (rpm)
- 22. What about thresholds? You must load test to find the breaking points and bottlenecks yourself. Load testing is hard.
- 23. AWS CloudWatch pros and cons. Comparison of three SAAS products that consume CloudWatch metrics. NewRelic Stackdriver Librato
- 25. CloudWatch limitations... ● ● ● ● two week data retention can’t create custom dashboards UI is better than it used to be… can’t time shift metrics to compare last week to this week
- 26. However in CloudWatch’s defense ● ● ● ● good for ad hoc exploration of data most up to date can set thresholds and alert on them can push custom metrics (does anyone use this?)
- 30. Setting up access Create IAM group and user Give Access Key and Secret Key to Librato
- 31. Setting up access Create IAM group and user Launch t1.micro AMI from marketplace (or run it on your own server) Configure and run Sync process (is a ruby gem)
- 32. Setting up access Create role for “cross account access” for “3rd party”, “read only” Give stackdriver the Role ARN.
- 33. Data retention NewRelic Stackdriver Librato 3 months 13 months (Elite tier) 12 months (rolled up to 1 hour resolution)
- 34. Features NewRelic Stackdriver Librato Custom dashboards ✓ ✓ ✓ Real time update ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Metric lag time display Time shift overlay ✓ Server agent ✓ Mobile client ✓ Custom metrics ✓ ✓ ✓ Events (like deployments) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- 35. Key benefits IMHO NewRelic Stackdriver integration with existing system easily define and integration clusters and with existing aggregate system open up access to those who wouldn’t otherwise have access imports CloudTrail data, who did what when? anomaly detection Librato flexibility of data collection and retention
- 36. Costs (per month) NewRelic Stackdriver Librato Free if you already use NewRelic $12 per resource (Elite tier) AWS Billing $0.60 DynamoDB $1.10 EBS $0.50 EC2 $0.50 ELB $0.65 ElastiCache $1.95 EMR $1.30 OpsWorks $0.75 RDS $0.70 Redshift $0.75 Route53 $0.05 SNS $0.20 SQS $0.40 ... But you need a server to run the collector (per instance)
- 41. Say g’day to me @dlutzy