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New - Custom Metrics for Amazon CloudWatch
- kordless 15y agoWe've got a nice post which outlines how to push Loggly data into Amazon if anyone is interested: http://www.loggly.com/2011/05/send-custom-metrics-to-cloudwatchs-api/ http://www.loggly.com/2011/05/send-custom-metrics-to-cloudwa.... There's also some simple code over on Github which provides a simple way to send metrics to your account: https://github.com/loggly/loggly-watch/blob/master/cloudwatch.py https://github.com/loggly/loggly-watch/blob/master/cloudwatc...
- jbyers 15y agoThis looks to be a useful service and another nice extension to AWS. However after re-reading Jeff's post, I found: All metrics are retained for a period of two weeks. This is a severe limitation. For short-term server health and autoscaling it makes perfect sense. For higher-level system metrics and application metrics I'd love to see CloudWatch store my stats for at least a year.
- Aloisius 15y agoI wonder if one could turn this into a dumb site optimizer by running A/B tests with business metrics reported and autoscale the group that is performing the best...
- jeffbarr 15y agoThat's actually a pretty cool idea and one that I think would work just fine.