Uptime Monitoring for AWS Resources

Site24x7 offers uptime monitoring for its AWS monitors, providing the availability status and configuration for each monitor. The main advantage of enabling uptime monitoring is that it helps you avoid consuming CloudWatch API calls to fetch metrics, thereby cutting down your CloudWatch costs. Since the CloudWatch metrics are not fetched, the time series charts will not be available for each monitor.

Few pointers to keep in mind:

• Uptime monitoring can not be enabled for Amazon KMS and Amazon Certificate Manager, since they inherently do not consume CloudWatch API's.
• With uptime monitoring enabled, the log report displays only the status of your monitor for each polled frequency.

Video

Here's a quick video that explains how AWS uptime monitoring works and the metrics that come with it:

Configure Uptime Monitoring

Uptime monitoring can be configured in three different ways:

• Editing a monitor
• Defining an action as a configuration rule
• Using Tags

Editing a monitor

To configure uptime monitoring by editing a monitor, follow the steps below:

1. In the Site24x7 console, navigate to the Edit Monitor Details page of a monitored AWS resource.
2. Toggle the Disable performance metrics collection option according to your preference.

Defining an action as a configuration rule

Follow the initial steps for adding a configuration rule listed here. When you define an action from the drop-down, select Disable performance metrics collection and set the value as True. Upon enabling Uptime Monitoring, the changes will be reflected.

Using Tags

Configure uptime monitoring efficiently for resources using tags. Set the tag "uptime_site24x7" as True, so that the respective AWS resource(s) is considered for uptime monitoring during discovery or at the next data collection.

Threshold Configuration

The set of thresholds that can be configured and notified with uptime monitoring enabled, are listed below.