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Monitoring an AWS ec2 instance

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:47 am
by dpasacritacrown
I'm having a huge amount of trouble figuring out if I can monitor an AWS instance, specifically an EC2 server. I'm not able to install the standard linux NRPE agent, as it tells me it isn't compatible with AWS, and there's no installer or wizard I can find for EC2 servers anywhere.

Some information from Nagios, such as this: https://www.nagios.com/solutions/aws-monitoring/ suggest that this can be done, but I can't find any information anywhere. Anyone have any tips? There are some important servers in AWS that we'd really like to monitor.

Re: Monitoring an AWS ec2 instance

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:03 am
by hsmith
If you can't hack together NRPE to work, would check by SSH work out? https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ng_SSH.pdf

Also, what is failing on NRPE? Are you using the fullinstall script, or compiling from source?

Re: Monitoring an AWS ec2 instance

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:08 pm
by dpasacritacrown
Somehow I missed the document about installing from source haha. It works now! You can close this post. :) Thanks!

Re: Monitoring an AWS ec2 instance

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:10 pm
by rkennedy
Glad to see you found a solution! I'll close this out now, but if you need more assistance in the future feel free to open a new thread.

Re: Monitoring an AWS ec2 instance

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:10 pm
by hsmith
Glad to hear it worked :)

I'll close this one.