IT Management
Building an IT Dashboard
Particularly if you're running your application inside of Amazon EC2, you can quickly build up a system wide dashboard through Easy Insight. Take advantage of the Easy Insight integration to Amazon EC2 Cloudwatch to pull in metrics around CPU utilization and I/O volume to gauge use of your instances. Slice the data by security group or instance ID to quantify the data at different levels. You can take advantage of the database integrations we offer to query for database metrics, getting a view into the specific performance of your particular relational database.
Watching Our Own Applications in EC2
Easy Insight uses itself for tracking IT performance. We run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, taking advantage of Cloudwatch, so we use our reporting on Cloudwatch to look at our overall CPU and I/O usage. From that overall usage, we track the usage at a security group level, since we have several distinct sets of instances within different security groups. And below those security groups, we have tracking on the particular instances.
Watching the Database
We take advantage of our database integration to periodically query for database sizes, giving us a good idea as to growth patterns at both a whole database level and at a particular table level. We track benchmark data on key operations, so we can query those benchmarks to get an idea as to things like 'How long are reports taking to load on average for users?'