Metron = Metrics + Monitoring

Create and manage an EC2 instance for collecting metrics across dev and QA environments.

Setup

Bootstrap your environment

./scripts/bootstrap

Configure for EC2

You will need to drop 4 files into config. These files are in .gitignore so they will not be checked in.

• access_key - AWS access key. Contents should be the access key, in text.
• secret_key - AWS secret key. Contents should be your secret access key, in text.
• identity.pem - Identity file used to log in. Contents will be an X.509 certificate.
• key_name - File containing the name of an AWS key to use. Should correspond to the identity file.

I suggest making symlinks to your primary source for each of these. For example,

ln -s ~/.ec2/access_key.txt config/access_key
ln -s ~/.ec2/secret_access_key.txt config/secret_key

And so on.

Usage

Commands

vagrant up --provider=aws Bootstrap and configure a new instance on EC2.

vagrant up Bootstrap and configure a virtual machine on your local box.

GUI

The Graphite GUI will be available on port 80 after boot. When using a local VM, the GUI will be at http://33.33.33.10/.