Amazon Web Services

The Solution Package for Amazon Web Services features an overview display, Amazon EC2 Overview (shown below), and the following displays which can be found under Components tab > Hosts > Amazon EC2 Hosts. For additional details, see vendor documentation.

This section contains the following displays:

• Amazon EC2 Instance Heatmap
• Amazon EC2 Instance Table
• Amazon EC2 Instance Summary

Amazon EC2 Overview

The Amazon EC2 Overview is the top-level display for the Amazon Web Services Solution Package, which provides a good starting point for immediately getting the status of all your connections on your Data Server. You can select the RTView DataServer for which you want to see data and easily view the current data for that DataServer including:

• The total number of active alerts for the selected Data Server, including the total number of critical and warning alerts.
• The Top 10 CPU% hogs, Network Out (kilobytes sent) or Network In (kilobytes received) on your connected DataServer.

You can hover over each region in the upper half of the Overview to see more detail. You can also drill down to see even more detail by clicking on each respective region in the Overview.

The trend graph traces CPU %, Network In and Network Out for the selected Host. You can hover over the trend graph to see the values at a particular time. You can specify the time range for the trend graph and view data based on a log scale, which enables visualization on a logarithmic scale and should be used when the range in your data is very broad.

 

 

Amazon EC2 Instance Heatmap

View the most critical alert states associated with your Amazon EC2 instances. Use this display to quickly identify instances with critical alerts. Compare heap usage, disk reads and writes and network throughput rates across all monitored instances.

Choose All, Stopped or Running hosts from the Show drop-down menu. Each rectangle in the heatmap represents an Amazon EC2 instance. The rectangle color indicates the most critical alert state associated with the instance for the selected Metric.

Choose a different metric to display from the Metric drop-down menu. Mouse over a rectangle to see additional metrics, including Disk Reads and Writes, CPU Utilization and Network In/Out rates. By default, this display shows Alert Severity.

Use the Labels check-box to include or exclude labels in the heatmap. Click a rectangle to drill-down and view instance details in the Amazon EC2 Instance Summary display.

 

Fields and Data:

 

Instance Count:

The total number of instances currently shown in the display.

 

Labels:

Select to show labels in the display.

 

Log Scale

Select to enable a logarithmic scale. Use Log Scale to see usage correlations for data with a wide range of values. For example, if a minority of your data is on a scale of tens, and a majority of your data is on a scale of thousands, the minority of your data is typically not visible in non-log scale graphs. Log Scale makes data on both scales visible by applying logarithmic values rather than actual values to the data.

 

Metric

Choose a metric to view in the display.

 

 

Alert Severity

The maximum level of alerts in the rectangle. Values range from 0 - 2, as indicated in the color gradient bar, where 2 is the highest Alert Severity:

Red indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold.

Yellow indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold.

Green indicates that no metrics have exceeded their alert thresholds.

 

 

CPU Usage

The percent (%) CPU used. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Network In

The number of incoming bytes. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Network Out

The number of outgoing bytes. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Disk Reads

The number of completed disk reads. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Disk Writes

The number of completed disk writes. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Disk Read Bytes

The amount of disk reads, in bytes. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

 

 

Disk Write Bytes

The amount of disk writes, in bytes. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum amount in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average amount.

Amazon EC2 Instance Table

Investigate detailed configuration and utilization metrics for all Amazon EC2 instances. This display contains all metrics available for Amazon EC2 instances, including the Public DNS Name, CPU% utilization and Alert Level, where:

Red indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold.

Yellow indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold.

Green indicates that no metrics exceeded their alert thresholds.

Each row in the table contains data for a particular Amazon EC2 instance. You can search, filter, sort and choose columns to include by clicking a column header icon (to the right of each column label) and selecting Filter, Sort Ascending, Sort Descending or Columns. Or just click a column header to sort. Right-click on a table cell to Export to Excel or Copy Cell Value.

Use the Show: drop-down menu to only show instances that are running or stopped.

Drill-down and investigate by clicking a row to view details for the selected instance in the Summary display.

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Instance Count:

The number of instances in the table.

Filter By:

The display might include these filtering options:

 

Show:

Choose to show All instances, running or stopped instances.

All Instances Table:
Each row in the table is a different instance.

 

Instance

The name of the instance.

 

Alert Severity

The maximum level of alerts in the row. Values range from 0 - 2, as indicated in the color gradient bar, where 2 is the highest Alert Severity:

Red indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold.

Yellow indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold.

Green indicates that no metrics exceeded their alert thresholds.

 

Public DNS Name

The public domain name of the instance.

 

State

The instance state (running or stopped).

 

%CPU

The percent CPU used.

 

Disk Reads

(bytes)

The amount of disk reads, in bytes.

 

Disk Reads

(Ops)

The number of disk reads (count).

 

Disk Writes

(bytes)

The amount of disk writes, in bytes.

 

Disk Writes

(Ops)

The number of disk writes (count).

 

Network In

The number of incoming bytes.

 

Network Out

The number of outgoing bytes.

 

Instance Type

The instance type (e.g. m1.small).

 

Private IP

The instance private IP address.

 

Public IP

The instance public IP address.

 

Platform

The instance operating system (e.g. windows).

 

Architecture

The instance architecture (e.g. i386).

 

Image ID

The unique identifier for the image.

For details about Amazon EC2 data, refer to vendor documentation.

 

Root Device Name

The name of the root device.

For details about Amazon EC2 data, refer to vendor documentation.

 

Root Device Type

The type of root device.

For details about Amazon EC2 data, refer to vendor documentation.

 

Availability Zone

The id for the availability zone (e.g. us-east-1a).

For details about Amazon EC2 data, refer to vendor documentation.

 

Group

For details, see vendor documentation.

 

Tenancy

For details about Amazon EC2 data, refer to vendor documentation.

 

Tags

For details, see vendor documentation.

 

State Transition Reason

For details, see vendor documentation.

 

LaunchTime

The date and time the instance was started.

 

Timestamp

The date and time the data was last updated.

 

Expired

When checked, data has not been received from this instance in the specified

amount of time. The instance will be removed from the in the specified amount of time. The default setting is 60 seconds.

Amazon EC2 Instance Summary

Track utilization and performance metrics for a specific Amazon EC2 instance. Use this display to investigate performance details and trends for an instance.

You can choose to have the trend graph trace CPU/Network utilization and load values (CPU % utilization, Network Out KBytes and Network In KBytes), or Disk utilization and load values (Disk Out KBytes, Disk In KBytes, Disk Out Ops and Disk In Ops).

You can hover over the trend graph to see the values at a particular time. You can specify the time range for the trend graph and view data based on a log scale, which enables visualization on a logarithmic scale and should be used when the range in your data is very broad.