amritsingh.ec2_monitor

ansible_ec2_monitor

Ansible Role to set up CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts and keep track of Memory and Disk Metrics for Amazon EC2 Linux Instances.

Role Variables

You need to define the following variables:

cloud_watch_monitoring_path - The location where the scripts will be downloaded and extracted.
cron_specs - A structured setting that includes:
- name: "Name of the task"
- minute: "*/5"
- hour: "*"
- job: "{{cloud_watch_monitoring_path}}/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --disk-space-util --disk-path=/mnt/data --from-cron --aws-access-key-id=AWS_KEY --aws-secret-key=AWS_SECRET_KEY"

Note: No default values are provided for these variables.

Dependencies

This package does not require any additional modules that are not included with Ansible by default.

Install

To install the role, use the following command:

$ ansible-galaxy install amritsingh.ec2_monitor

Usage

Here is an example of how to use it in site.yml:

$ cat site.yml
---
- hosts: all
  remote_user: centos
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
      - role: "amritsingh.ec2_monitor"

        cloud_watch_monitoring_path: "/opt"
        cron_specs:
            - name: "Send Memory And Disk Usage Statistics"
              minute: "*/5"
              hour: "*"
              job: >
                  {{cloud_watch_monitoring_path}}/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl
                  --disk-space-util
                  --disk-path=/
                  --disk-path=/data
                  --disk-space-used
                  --disk-space-avail
                  --mem-util
                  --mem-used
                  --mem-avail
                  --from-cron
                  --aws-access-key-id=your_aws_access_key_id
                  --aws-secret-key=your_aws_secret_key