Day 78 : Grafana Cloud

As organizations scale their cloud infrastructure, monitoring becomes a crucial aspect of maintaining performance, cost-efficiency, and security. Grafana Cloud, a powerful analytics and monitoring platform, offers robust capabilities to visualize metrics, logs, and traces from various data sources, including AWS. In this post, we’ll walk you through setting up alerts in Grafana Cloud for your EC2 instances and AWS billing, ensuring you stay ahead of any issues or unexpected costs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Pre-requisites

• Setup Grafana Monitoring for EC2 instance

• Setup Grafana alert for AWS Billing

Pre-requisites

Create an EC2 instance.

We can install docker and run an image to view the EC2 usage of CPU, Memory, network connections, etc.

Setup Grafana Monitoring for EC2 instance

We have learnt how to set up the Grafana cloud on my last blog. Navigate to the home page and click to connect data.

In the dashboard install the Linux server conection to connect the EC2 instance to Grafana Cloud.

Set up the connection settings. Run the Grafana agent.

Choose the OS and architecture. Create an API token and run it in the EC2 instance.

You have to run this above commands in your ec2 instance to install and run Grafana Alloy

Finally, proceed to install integration as shown in the above screenshot.

Navigate to the dashboard in the Grafana cloud home page and add Amazon EC2 to view the complete monitoring of the AWS instance.

We can organize the dashboard now to see all the real-time statuses in the server.

Conclusion

Setting up alerts in Grafana Cloud for your EC2 instances and AWS billing helps you maintain a healthy and cost-effective cloud environment. By leveraging Grafana’s powerful monitoring and alerting capabilities, you can proactively manage your AWS infrastructure, ensuring high performance and avoiding unexpected costs. Start today by integrating your AWS account with Grafana Cloud and configuring the necessary alerts to keep your cloud operations running smoothly.

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