Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Monitoring Integration

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk lets you provision and scale web applications with ease by removing the administrative overhead involved in capacity provisioning, load balancing and scaling. With Site24x7's AWS integration, you collect data for visibility, configure thresholds and get alerted whenever a problem arises in your beanstalk environment.

Support

By default, Site24x7 collects information from the basic health reporting system to determine the health of your environment. Additionally you can also enable enhanced reporting for your environment or update your health reporting preferences to publish system level and application level metrics to CloudWatch to track them using Site24x7.

Setup and configuration

• If you haven't done it already, enable access to your AWS resource and services by creating Site24x7 as an IAM user or an IAM role. Learn more.
• Next, in the Integrate your AWS account section, please make sure the ElasticBeanstalk checkbox is selected in the Services to be discovered field. Learn more.

Policies and permissions

Please make sure the following read level actions are present in the IAM policy assigned to Site24x7 entity. Learn more.

• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeAccountAttributes",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEvents",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeInstancesHealth",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentHealth",
• "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeConfigurationSettings",
• "elasticbeanstalk:ListTagsForResource",
• "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
• "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
• "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
• "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
• "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
• "s3:GetObject",
• "s3:GetObjectAcl",
• "s3:GetObjectVersion",
• "s3:GetObjectVersionAcl",
• "s3:GetBucketLocation",
• "s3:GetBucketPolicy",
• "s3:ListBucket"

Update the health preference for your environment

If you've created an environment with the latest platform versions, then enhanced heath would be enabled by default. However, to record and track environment and system level metrics using Site24x7, you need to publish the data collected by the Elastic Beanstalk service to CloudWatch as custom metrics:

To select which metrics you want to monitor for your environment, follow the below mentioned steps:

• Sign into the Elastic Beanstalk console and navigate to the Management page for your environment
• Select Configuration and choose Modify on the Monitoring configuration card
• Under health reporting, the Enhanced option would already be selected.
• Use Ctrl/Command key to select multiple metrics
• Choose Apply.

Alerts on Threshold Breach

On the Edit Threshold Profile page, toggle to Yes to receive notifications for the following threshold values when:

• The monitored resource is Down/Critical/Trouble
• Environment health failure occurs
• Environment health status warning occurs
• The platform branch status is deprecated or retired

Polling interval

Site24x7 collects performance statistics, health status and inventory data as per the poll frequency set (1 minute to a day). Learn more.

IT Automations

You can add automations for the AWS services supported by Site24x7. Log in to Site24x7 and go to Admin > IT Automation Templates (+) > Add Automation Templates. Once automations are added, you can schedule them to be executed one after the other.

You can now restart the web servers running in your Beanstalk environment using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk service automations.

Supported Metrics

Environment level data

Instance level data

To view data

• Log in to the Site24x7 console, click on AWS > Monitored AWS account and select Elastic Beanstalk from the drop down.
• From the list of monitored environments, choose the environment for which you want to access metrics for.
• The various graphs on application health are displayed in the Summary tab.

Elastic Beanstalk monitoring UI pages

Summary

Use Site24x7's Elastic Beanstalk Summary tab to better understand application health. By default, the Environment Health Overview and Instance Health widgets are shown along with the charting for Events Severity count. 

Instances

Site24x7's Instance tab, is equipped to provide your near real time visibility into the health of the Amazon EC2 instances powering your web application. By default, no charting is visible. Update you Elastic Beanstalk setting, select the metrics you want to monitor for your instance, to generate metrics in the Site24x7 UI.

AutoScaling

Know when you AutoScaling is launching or terminating EC2 instances from your AutoScaling group. View launch configuration details along with scaling events and description, compare environment health with changes to determine root cause.

Monitored Resources

Here you can view a list of monitored EC2 instances, Elastic Load balancing nodes, and SQS queue's associated with your Elastic Beanstalk environment. Click on an individual listing to see performance and resource usage stats associated with that resource. You can also set thresholds and be notified when any of these services fail by clicking the pencil icon under Action.

Events

Our Elastic Beanstalk monitoring Events page, shows a list of all events and notifications generated by the platform or emitted by your application environment. At any point in time you can view the last 100 events generated.

Configuration Details

Get a complete configuration overview of of your Elastic Beanstalk environment. View configuration information for every resource – EC2 instances, AutoScaling group, instance security group, load balancer, load balancer security group and more.