Watching AWS costs with our A51 Monitoring & Control Dashboard. aMiSTACX’s A51 dashboard now includes a billing module. This module was specifically designed to help you keep an eye on your AWS costs. Features Overview: How to Enable A51 Features for AWS: Because AWS treats billing as a highly private reporting mechanism, A51 cannot fully… Continue reading Reduce AWS Costs : Part II
Category: AWS Monitoring
Cookieless Analytics with Matomo On-Premise Edition
There are many resources on Matomo’s main site about how to go cookieless, and the merits of local importing of logs with Matomo. This post will help get you started with an aMiSTACX deployment that installs {WordPress or Magento}, and Matomo On-Premise Edition in order to help you leverage the server log analytics import feature.… Continue reading Cookieless Analytics with Matomo On-Premise Edition
Post aMiSTACX Deployment Checklist
Although you are responsible for your AWS and aMiSTACX environment, we wanted to put together an abbreviated post deployment checklist to help remind you of areas that are commonly overlooked for security and performance.
[Solved!] How to prevent RDS auto-restart.
We don’t know why AWS RDS auto-restarts every seven days, maybe for maintenance, or just to help add some $$ to the AWS coffers. AWS recently added their nag modal to help remind AWS customers that even if they stop RDS, in seven days it is going to restart. Most of us in our busy… Continue reading [Solved!] How to prevent RDS auto-restart.
Enable CloudWatch Agent for A51 Dashboard
Our A51 dashboard supports Advanced Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch. This new feature will allow history on some important local EC2 metrics such as disk space available, memory usage, CPU utilization, CPU credits and more. Should your stack not have the CloudWatch Agent, please follow these simple steps to install on a G6/G5 stack. Note: Newer… Continue reading Enable CloudWatch Agent for A51 Dashboard
A51 Tips for AWS Monitoring & Control
Our A51 console was designed to reduce AWS costs, and to offer a simple interface designed to compliment, and in some areas superseded the AWS console. Making it an invaluable tool. We decided to put together some tips and tricks for our A51 Monitoring & Control dashboard for AWS. By no means will this be… Continue reading A51 Tips for AWS Monitoring & Control
Deploy & Manage your AWS QnA Bot
Although AWS makes it very easy to deploy a QnA bot, AWS makes it almost impossible to analyze the data received. Unless of course you love to dig through dozens of CloudWatch logs in un-human type reports. Seriously, the designers of the UX/UI really need very long vacations as many of the designs are convoluted,… Continue reading Deploy & Manage your AWS QnA Bot
Service Unavailable Friendly Page
Let’s face it. It is kind of embarrassing when our e-commerce site goes down with an ugly “Service Unavailable” message to your customers. Either on purpose for maintenance, or without your knowledge due to a system fault, the default “Service Unavailable” or Magento error pages are just very uninformative. A low cost DIY aMiSTACX solution… Continue reading Service Unavailable Friendly Page
AWS EC2 and RDS Alerting and Monitoring
A51 accounts can now take advantage of simplistic but powerful monitoring, alerting, and health checks on aMiSTACX stacks, and on non-aMiSTACX AWS EC2 servers. How much does downtime cost your business? Hundreds? Thousands? How are you, or your IT team informed of an issue that impacts your site? Do your customers tell you? Or maybe… Continue reading AWS EC2 and RDS Alerting and Monitoring
A51 Management Console for AWS
Manage AWS Resources & Reduce Costs with aMiSTACX Our A51 Monitoring & Control dashboard for AWS resources is now available to all aMiSTACX customers. The A51 dashboard is included with your aMiSTACX AWS EC2 Marketplace pay-as-you-go subscription. [New customers, please wait 24-48 hrs before you attempt to register.] What is A51? You will be able… Continue reading A51 Management Console for AWS