{"id":2235,"date":"2019-08-22T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=2235"},"modified":"2022-03-04T06:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:10:40","slug":"auto-scaling-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-devops-engineer\/auto-scaling-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Scaling Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this, we will learn the concepts of Auto Scaling Monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auto Scaling can monitor instances and groups by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Health checks &#8211; <ul><li>EC2 Auto Scaling periodically performs health checks on instances in the Auto Scaling group <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>It identifies unhealthy instances <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Auto Scaling Monitoring finds health status using EC2 status checks, ELB health checks, or custom health checks. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>CloudWatch metrics <ul><li>EC2 Auto Scaling publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>CloudWatch retrieve statistics about those data points as ordered set of time series data or metrics. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>use these metrics to verify that system is working as expected. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>CloudWatch Events <ul><li>EC2 Auto Scaling can also submit events to CloudWatch Events <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Event submission is when <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Auto Scaling groups launch or terminate instances, <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>lifecycle action occurs. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Can invoke Lambda function when the event occurs. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>SNS notifications <ul><li>EC2 Auto Scaling can send Amazon SNS notifications <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>SNS sent, when groups launch or terminate instances. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>CloudTrail logs <ul><li>CloudTrail tracks calls to EC2 Auto Scaling API by <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>It stores the information in log files in S3 bucket <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Use log files to monitor activity of your Auto Scaling groups. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Logs include <ul><li>which requests were made, <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>source IP addresses of requests <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>who made the request<\/li><li>when the request was made  <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Instance Health Status<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>EC2 Auto Scaling finds health status of an instance using one or more of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Status checks by EC2 and includes both instance and system status checks.\n<ul>\n<li>Health checks provided by Elastic Load Balancing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>custom health checks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Instance is considered unhealthy in any state other than running or if system status is impaired,<\/li><li>unhealthy instance is terminated and replacement is launched<\/li><li>Following states makes instance unhealthy\n<ul>\n<li>stopping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>stopped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>terminating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>terminated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Auto Scaling Group Metrics <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The AWS\/AutoScaling namespace includes the following metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><td><strong>Metric<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>GroupMinSize<\/td><td>The minimum size of the Auto Scaling group.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupMaxSize<\/td><td>The maximum size of the Auto Scaling group.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupDesiredCapacity<\/td><td>The number of instances that the Auto Scaling group attempts to maintain.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupInServiceInstances<\/td><td>The number of instances that are running as part of the Auto Scaling group. This metric does not include instances that are pending or terminating.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupPendingInstances<\/td><td>The number of instances that are pending. A pending instance is not yet in service. This metric does not include instances that are in service or terminating.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupStandbyInstances<\/td><td>The number of instances that are in a Standby state. Instances in this state are still running but are not actively in service.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupTerminatingInstances<\/td><td>The number of instances that are in the process of terminating. This metric does not include instances that are in service or pending.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GroupTotalInstances<\/td><td>The total number of instances in the Auto Scaling group. 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