SignalFx and EC2 are a match made in heaven. If you need to ensure the uptime of your EC2 instances monitoring tools like SignalFx is a must-have. Follow along for details that will help you use SignalFx to monitor an existing EC2 instance. If you have different EC2 & SignalFx integration requirements see this documentation. Prerequisites An existing EC2 Instance, Amazon provides a free tier A SignalFx account, 14-day trials are available on signalfx....

The Basics Learn EC2 basics, concepts, and more. Amazon EC2 is the core compute service provided by Amazon Web Services. It’s Virtual Machines in the cloud. If you have been using Amazon Web Services for a while there is no doubt you encountered EC2 in one way or another. It is a central service used by Amazon Lightsail and numerous other offerings. Primary Use Cases Hosting environments for your apps High-performance computing Computing with more specific use cases like: GPU Heavy Tasks High Memory Requirements Burstable compute Launch Template Defines the launch parameters for an EC2 instance....

The Basics Cloud providers have taken the tech world by storm over the past several years. Amazon led the way with cloud computing in 2006 when it launched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The cloud, however, was mentioned as early as 1998. The Flexera state of the cloud report provides a snapshot of the current state of cloud computing. The Flexera report is compiled once a year and contains insights about how companies are using cloud providers, along with adoption rates....

The Basics Learn Amazon Athena basics. Amazon Athena is meant for querying copious amounts of data on the cheap. It’s a straightforward service based on Presto with some interesting integrations. The Presto Foundation calls Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR Presto Cloud on their website. It’s not dirt cheap to use Amazon Athena, but it is convenient. It costs $5.00 per TB of data scanned. It’s possible to pay a third of that with compression....

The Basics Learn Signal Analog by doing. Signal Analog is a tool for generating SignalFx dashboards. It’s a Nike open source project on GitHub. My team is migrating from New Relic to SignalFx, and we have opted to use Signal Analog to create our SignalFx resources. Installation I ran these commands to add the signal_analog package to my project. mkdir learn-signal-analog cd learn-signal-analog printf 'signal_analog' > requirements.txt pip3 install -r requirements....