Monitoring AWS infrastructure using CloudWatch is mostly a case of just enabling it for the resources you want monitored. You get automatically selected metrics available in CloudWatch, ready for your dashboard. For some reason though, for EC2 instances you do not get any memory (or disk) metrics. I guess this is a shortcoming Amazon have been asked about a lot, because they have made scripts available that you can run on the instance that will send memory and disk data to CloudWatch. (more…)
Month: April 2017
Getting started with Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), also known as Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, is nothing short of a game-changer! If you are ready to check out what the hype is all about, read on. (more…)
My MVP award, and about giving recognition for community work
As my followers on social media may have seen already, I have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award in the “Cloud and Datacenter Management” category. For this I’m deeply humbled and grateful.
Getting any kind of recognition for work done is of course highly rewarding in itself, but I’d like to take the opportunity to write down my thoughts on the act of giving and receiving recognition for community work. (more…)
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