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April 2019

How to Monitor AWS Elastic Beanstalk with CloudWatch

AWS Beanstalk allows you to spin up entire environments (EC2 instances, ELBs, etc.) to support an application without you having to configure the resources manually. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor Beanstalk and what is important to watch.

New S3 Objects give 403 Forbidden in Cloudfront

A common problem with Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 hosting deals with negative TTLs. Matthew from Blue Matador outlines the steps needed to correct this problem. Understand eventual consistency in S3. New items may take time to propagate through redundant systems and be available in all locations., Understand CloudFront's default policy for handling errors, like 403 forbidden, is to cache that error for 5 minutes., The solution is to modify distribution settings in CloudFront.

Configuring Amazon SNS for CloudWatch Alarms

In this video Blue Matador will walk you through how to set up Amazon SNS to receive CloudWatch alarms by email or text message. Using AWS CloudWatch isn't hard, it's just tedious with an unusable UI. We are experts in AWS and Kubernetes monitoring and have built Blue Matador to make the lives of DevOps professionals easier. Learn more about our cloud monitoring solution and other CloudWatch resources at www.bluematador.com.

Blue Matador Helps Canopy Monitor AWS and Kubernetes Proactively

Before Blue Matador Canopy was mostly using CloudWatch to monitor their AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. Things they didn't know they should monitor would break. Now, they have moved from being proactive rather than reactive and are monitoring all of the unknowns. Find out more at www.bluematador.com

How to Monitor Amazon EBS with CloudWatch

Amazon EBS allows you to provision storage volumes for your EC2 instances without having to actually manage physical hardware. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor EBS and what is important to watch.

How to Monitor Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch

Amazon EC2 allows you to spin up servers for your application without having to actually manage physical hardware. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor EC2 and what is important to watch.