AWS Management Console - Now with Amazon CloudWatch Support

The AWS Management Console now has complete support for Amazon CloudWatch. You can enable CloudWatch for any or all of your EC2 instances using the console and data will be available in a moment or two. You can select one or more running EC2 instances to see the CloudWatch data in graphical form. You can observe CPU utilization, disk reads, disk writes, and network traffic (both in and out). If you select more than one EC2 instance, the console will automatically display aggregated values.You can also get a larger and more detailed view of the data.

Here are some pictures of the console in action:

Among other uses, you can use the new CloudWatch support to monitor and tune your Auto Scaling rules.

The new release of the AWS Management Console also centralizes a number of actions on EC2 instances in a new Instance Actions menu:

It is flexible, colorful, and informative and you can start to use it now!

-- Jeff;

Comments

[Jurg van Vliet]

very nice. of course we did not expect to be the only with the ideas of this sort of visualization. but you can have a similar 'view on your cloud' with decaf (http://decaf.9apps.net/

for me seeing my 'cloud' like this is indispensable. it gives you a sense of the health of your 'server park'. thank you amazon!

[iolaire]

Thank you this is helpful. I'm using Munin but its nice to have your concise view that is customized to your system.

[Dirk Paessler]

As soon as you have enabled CloudWatch on your instances (as described above) you can now use our PRTG Network Monitor software (for Windows) to monitor your instances through Cloudwatch. Already the Freeware Edition offers this feature!

See:
http://www.paessler.com/blog/2009/08/20/prtg-7/new-features-in-prtg-72-support-for-amazon-cloudwatch/

Dirk Paessler
CEO, Paessler AG

[Sean Carey]

DartWare, the makers of the InterMapper Monitoring Tool created a free CloudWatch plugin for their Community Edition Software.

Along with the InterMapper Community Edition , they created a turnkey AMI. Just a few clicks, and your running a super proactive monitoring solution for your ec2 servers.

Of course InterMapper also supports SNMP, so if CloudWatch does not meet all of your needs, you can open the door to a vast array of options.

Check it out for yourself:

http://www.intermapper.com/products/ec2-monitoring

This is a brand new plugin, so feedback is always appreciated.