Best practices for monitoring
Use the following best practices for monitoring to help you with your Amazon EC2 monitoring tasks.
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Make monitoring a priority to head off small problems before they become big ones.
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Create and implement a monitoring plan that collects monitoring data from all of the parts in your Amazon solution so that you can more easily debug a multi-point failure if one occurs. Your monitoring plan should address, at a minimum, the following questions:
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What are your goals for monitoring?
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What resources will you monitor?
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How often will you monitor these resources?
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What monitoring tools will you use?
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Who will perform the monitoring tasks?
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Who should be notified when something goes wrong?
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Automate monitoring tasks as much as possible.
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Check the log files on your EC2 instances.