VA East has had problems in the past; it's their original datacenter so it has the oldest hardware. That said, the last issue I ran into was my VPC NAT instance (in us-west-2 / Oregon) suddenly deciding to go offline. Instance was still running, but flagged as nonresponsive. I was planning on replacing it anyways, though, because it had popped up with a retirement alert at the end of the month.
As for monitoring, we have basically all non-NAT instances set up with Chef, so I use the Chef nagios cookbook (overwritten to configure icinga instead) to dynamically build an Icinga configuration that we run in our primary VMWare datacenter that has a VPN to our VPC nodes. It's worked out well for us, though I need to make sure we add in the NAT instances to some sort of monitoring... either via that Icinga node (configured manually via Chef databags for unmanaged hosts) or Pingdom. I'm leaning towards the latter at the moment since we won't have NRPE or SNMP set up on those boxes. -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I would really like to hear from anybody else who has AWS machines, and > alerting/monitoring of those systems (by a system other than Amazon's own > monitoring system). > > > > The number of alerts I'm receiving about systems being unreachable and > then becoming reachable again is ... Crazy to say the least. Several dozen > last night alone, several dozen in the prior week, several dozen again each > weekend for the last several weeks. It's horrible. > > > > All systems being monitored, as well as the system doing the monitoring, > are in US VA East. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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