Monitis Cloud Monitoring Service

The main monitoring features of Monitis Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 cloud storage on-demand cloud monitoring service are: external monitoring of launched Amazon virtual servers and generate notifications to users upon breaking the threshold level, dynamically and adaptively monitor web servers, mail servers, databases etc without the need of manually adding each monitor and rules per server, automatically install Monitis agent on new servers and monitor performance metrics plus generate notifications when resources are detected to be low, proactive notification to users if a server is lost in the Amazon cloud.

Monitis EC2, S3 Monitoring Benefits

First, it helps to control Amazon Web Services' costs. Companies that utilize cloud computing can find costs escalate when they use auto-scaling mechanisms to add extra Amazon EC2 virtual servers on demand and, due to bugs or misconfigurations, processes get out of control.

Second, Monitis EC2 automatically adds monitors and notifications with an automatic discovery process for newly launched URLs, cutting down on time-consuming setups of other external monitoring services.

Third, Monitis automates agent deployment on each newly launched virtual server, saving time-consuming setup and allowing for deep, process level monitoring and detailed performance analysis.

Fourth, Monitis maintains historical data on each virtual server start and stop and performance data, allowing failure and root cause analysis.

And finally, Monitis EC2 allows you to monitor installed software on each virtual server, along with other parameters, and smoothes the configuration management of large numbers of servers in the cloud.

How Monitis Cloud Monitoring Works?

How can Monitis help you in setting up Amazon Web Services monitoring within a very short span of time? This can be explained in the following steps. Firstly, Amazon keys should be added into the Monitis account and then EC2 and/or S3 monitoring should be enabled. Then, you must setup the notification rule on the maximum number of virtual server instances which are running at that time. Then, it will guide you for the setting up of the external monitors for each new EC2 server instance. Next, it would ask you to setup agent auto-deployment for each server. If the user wants to have the advantage of auto deployment, he must input the security key, which may be changed later as per the user's choice.

Then, if the user selects auto deployment, he must specify which parameters & processes are to be monitored on each server and he must also set their threshold values too for notifications. Finally, two new tables will be added to customers' dashboard i.e. running instance table and history table, each having columns with monitoring metrics (e.g. CPU, URL response time, Free Memory). Then, user may click on these metrics and get the detailed charts for any day as now the monitoring is enabled. In a critical situation like termination of server, Monitis can still show the past performance chart, which is very useful to analyze failure root cause.

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