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Prometheus,Cloudwatch&Grafana Powered by GlobalSolutions

Prometheus,Cloudwatch
&Grafana

Powered by GS

Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting application.It is a multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified
by metric name and key/value pairs.Here at GlobalSolutions, we have made it easy for our customer to subscribe to our AMI start collecting
AWS Cloud metrics. We have installed and configured Prometheus, Cloudwatch exporter, and Grafana. The user can subscribe to the service
and start gathering the AWS Cloudwatch metrics. Why pay for expensive solutions which cost a few thousands of dollars a month? when you subscribe AMI this you spend less than hundred dollars a month irrespective of the number of resources you use on the cloud.

You can learn more about our PatchManagement solution from https://patchawscloud.com/saasconsole.

Usage instructions

Subscribe to our AMI.

Go to your AWS account - > IAM to create policy and user as described below.

Create a new policy. When you create a policy you will be asked to "Choose a service".

Search for Cloudwatch and select it.
Expand the List and Read options and select "ListMetrics" and "GetMetricStatistics" .
Go through the steps to complete the creation process.

Create an IAM user.

Add the policy that you created in the previous steps.

Get the access key and secret key for the user.

Go tp /home/ubuntu/.aws and open the credentials file.

Add access key and the secret key here.

See your metrics

As soon as the above configuration is done you will start seeing the metrics. We have provided sample config which will collect the base AWS EC2 metrics. The configuration file is located in /home/ubuntu/gs-monitoring/cloudexporter/aws.yml Please add more metrics as you get comfortable with the application. You can
refer the following AWS page to add more metrics and follow the sample file format. Any typo or user error in the syntax will not pump the metrics to Prometheus.
If you add more metrics please use the following command to restart the Cloudwatch service.

sudo systemctl restart cloudwatch.service

You can view the metrics through the following URL -

Grafana -

http://ec2 instance Public IP:3000
Login with the user admin and password admin. You will be requested to change your password at this time.
Go to Manage dashboard on the left and select EC2 Metric Dashboard. You will see four out of the box metrics.

Prometheus -

http://ec2 instance Public IP:9090

Support

Please contact us at support@theglobalsolutions.net for any questions on this offering in AWS Marketplace.

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