I tried searching for this topic on Google and after many failed attempts I decided to post this as questions here.
What I want to achieve: Monitoring my aws limits using Nagios.
As I have understood aws cli can be used to get the limits of only few aws services, for more in depth cost management and service limit management one has to opt for trusted advisor. Unfortunately it's quite expensive.
So I was wondering if there's a much simpler way with Nagios in which I could get notified if any of the aws services for my account is hitting a limit?
What kind of service limit notification strategy is used by organizations(That can't afford to buy a subscription of trusted advisor) that use Aws?
You're right: only few services can show their limit (and current usage) through CLI or API. I don't like it either :) We have three options here:
Create a parser that grabs information from AWS Console (there is an example code here: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2015/07/20/adventures-in-aws-automating-service-limit-checks/).
Buy Trusted Advisor (btw, you can get a Trusted Advisor report with API call).
Try using awslimitchecker. Cause someone already tried to solve this problem.
https://awslimitchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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My free AWS tier is going to expire in 8 days. I removed every EC2 resource and elastic IP associated with it. Because that is what I recall initializing and experimenting with. I deleted all the roles I created because as I understand it, roles permit AWS to perform actions for AWS services. And yet, when I go to the billing page it shows I have these three services that are in current usage.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/RvKZc.png
I used the script as recommended by AWS documentation to check for all instances and it shows "no resources found".
Link for script: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager-automation-runbooks/latest/userguide/automation-awssupport-listec2resources.html
I tried searching for each service using the dashboard and didn't get anywhere. I found an S3 bucket, I don't remember creating it but I deleted it anyway, and still, I get the same output.
Any help is much appreciated.
ok, I was able to get in touch with AWS support via Live chat, and they informed me that those services in my billing were usages generated before the services were terminated. AWS support was much faster than I expected.
I am trying to build a tool which tracks unused AWS resources. I have figured out how to obtain a list of all resources on my AWS account. Now, for each of these resources, I need to find out the last time it was used.
Is there some AWS API/CLI using which I can find the required info?
I did some search, but the most common suggestion I get is to use tools like Janitor Monkey and Cloud Custodian. I am trying to build a tool of my own, and do not want to employ some other software.
you can use AWS Cloudwatch for monitoring.
You can monitor metrics like CPU utilization and network latency.
Also, you can try using the logs but that will depend on the application that is running in your machine.
Yesterday our infrastructure started throwing lots of connection errors. We started debugging and the more we looked, the more perplexing the issue appeared to be; until someone noticed the bell icon (Alerts) on the AWS page had an orange dot on it.
Behold! there were lots of AWS operational issues in our availability region that AWS were fixing.
To avoid this situation in the future I wanted to subscribe to these 'Alert' so we get an email notification.
Does anyone know how to set up an email alert for AWS operational issues in the specified region?
Much to my astonishment, there was no obvious way to set this up.
Easiest way is to subscribe RSS feed on AWS Service Health Dashboard.
If you want customized stuffs, you can checkout AWS Personal Health Dashbaord. It shows your AWS services and whether they are experiencing issues.
This AWS documentation provides a really comprehensive guide on how to setup alerts. Checkout this aws-health-tools github repository for fully functional examples.
The title sums it up. Essentially, I'd like to offer my own closed-source proprietary ML algorithms to Amazon AWS customers on a pay-to-use basis API - e.g., sales volumes prediction algorithm service licensed monthly or annually or per call. Most information found talks about how to build and give it away, or use it internally within one's company, but I'm looking to offer it to the public as a commercial offering on AWS.
Thank you in advance for your help - links to articles, help pages, or direct steps on how to do this.
This is actually very easy to do with AWS.
Create an AWS Marketplace account.
Create an AMI bundled with your software with per hour pricing.
This link will get you started:
Sell on AWS Marketplace
Allow me please to answer my own question. Although not a 100% what I was hoping for, there's certainly support for this in the platform which is great to see: Software-as-a-Service-Based Products
It looks like you need to set up your own EC2 server and then create an API gateway call to invoke your service, and you can create API keys to control access/pricing for your end users.
API Key usage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-setup-api-key-with-restapi.html
You can also look into AWS Sagemaker to set up your ML pipeline and provide a managed inference endpoint if you don't want to host your own EC2 server, from there can leverage API gateway the same way.
I have deployed a LAMP stack application on AWS. I need to monitor that using CloudWatch.
Can someone guide me on how to use the CloudWatch API for GetMetrics for CPU utilization? The AWS documentation is very scarce.
I see that the putmetrics call will let me create my own metrics.
My requirement is that I need to display those metric results in a mobile app.
My app monitors a project deployed on AWS. The alerts and metrics that come in must stream into the app.
I don't want just the metrics data in the AWS console,
I want it viewable in my mobile app. The app is developed in MEAN stack.
I must also add that the app is deployed on AWS and the application that is
being monitored is also in there(its a LAMP stack). I have managed to set 2 endpoints(HTTP and DB) and I have written
simple scripts in Javascript to monitor them. But ideally they should happen via Cloudwatch.
Providing a piece of code that replicates the issue that you are seeing normally allows who sees the question to help you better than guessing what you're doing.
Are you using an SDK to do this? What language/version?
here are links to the API docs:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_GetMetricStatistics.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_ListMetrics.html
The pattern is to list the metrics and after that use the result and feed it into getmetricsstatistics.
In your specific case, googling the issue a bit before might answer the question before you ask it on SO. For example:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=295740
This can happen when you are hitting the wrong endpoint. Check if you are hitting endpoint of the right AWS service.
For example, trying to hit DynamoDB's endpoint when you want to access CloudWatch APIs.