Along these lines, I recommend installing New Relic server monitoring on all your EC2 instances. The server-level monitoring is free, and it's super simple to

Along these lines, I recommend installing New Relic server monitoring on all your EC2 instances. The server-level monitoring is free, and it's super simple to install. (The code we use to roll it out via ansible: https://gist.github.com/drob/8790246 https://gist.github.com/drob/8790246) You get 24 hours of historical data and a nice webUI. Totally worth the effort.