Top ELB health and performance metrics

Part 1 – https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/top-elb-health-and-performance-metrics Request count Surge queue length and spillover count ELB 5xx errors Backend instances health status Backend latency Part 2 – https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-collect-aws-elb-metrics Part 3 – https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-elb-performance-with-datadog

Custom CloudWatch Tomcat JVM Metrics

http://johnhunsley.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/custom-cloudwatch-tomcat-jvm-metrics.html To set this up you will need to do the following: Have an AWS account Set up a IAM Role to be applied to a running instance which you want to monitor Start EC2 instance hosting Tomcat which has outbound access to the internet Download the AWS CLI package Create a script to extract…