AWS CLOUDWATCH PRTG SET UP
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Hello,
We have several EC2 instances on AWS cloud and chosen PRTG to monitor whole AWS infrastructrue. Could someone share me a document to get started with ?
any leads ?
Tq
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Hi Stephen
Thanks for the response.
My EC2 instances have been set up with custom perl scripts to pull custom metrics, but when I used EC2 sensor its only pulls default metrics ( CPU, DiskR/W, Network I/O) not the custom metrics which already flowing in cloudwatch
Sep, 2015 - Permalink
Unfortunately, we don't have a perl sensor, however, you might be able to alter them in order to work with one of our custom sensors:
Sep, 2015 - Permalink
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Have you tried the Amazon CloudWatch EC2 sensor already? :)
Sep, 2015 - Permalink