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Resolve Downtime Issues with AWS System Manager Custom Metrics

Consider a situation where you have a downtime issue arising in your machine. Still, the CPU utilization is average, and you cannot think why it is happening. Then custom metrics will come into the picture; you can set some custom metrics like memory utilization metrics to check the downtime is due to high memory utilization or something else.

The first question that strikes in mind is why we need custom metrics when AWS CloudWatch offers a large variety of matrices for your EC2 instances. Sometimes, you need some custom metrics to visualize your instances to know the exact reason for the downtime.

Well, you can achieve custom metrics set up with the help of AWS System Manager, which makes this setup much more effortless and understandable.

AWS System Manager

AWS System Manager (very well known as SSM) is an AWS service that helps to view and control operational data on multiple AWS Resources such as a group of EC2, IoT Devices, On-Prem servers, etc.

It helps you maintain security and compliance by scanning your machines and reporting any violations if found.

Installation of AWS System Manager

By default, AWS SSM is installed on these flavors of EC2 machines-:

But if your EC2 doesn’t come in the above category, then you can manually install it on your EC2 server, click below on the basis of your OS, and install it:

  1. Amazon Linux
  2. Amazon Linux 2
  3. CentOS
  4. Debian Server
  5. Oracle Linux
  6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  7. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  8. Ubuntu Server

Setting up Custom Metrics

Step -1:

Create an EC2 role with these policies

Step -2:

Attach an IAM Role to the instances

Step -3:

System Manager

Step -4:

Parameter Store

Conclusion

In this world of competition, where there is no room for a lag of your website or serious downtime, you will lose your potential customers who will switch to your competitors. So make your website completely free from such issues by significantly decreasing the downtime, making your application highly available with frequent releases. CloudThat’s team of experts can help you set up a highly available and scalable infrastructure. In addition, we have a special managed service team that will monitor your Infrastructure and resolve issues as soon as possible so that you can focus on your business more than downtime problems.

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WRITTEN BY Rishi Raj

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