Monitoring AWS Auto Scaling

Enabling proxy configuration

To enable the AWS Auto Scaling sensor to use the proxy configuration, add the following agent configuration settings:

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  proxy_host: 'example.com' # proxy host name or ip address
  proxy_port: 3128 # proxy port
  proxy_protocol: 'HTTP' # proxy protocol: HTTP or HTTPS
  proxy_username: 'username' # OPTIONAL: proxy username
  proxy_password: 'password' # OPTIONAL: proxy password

Disabling the AWS Auto Scaling sensor

To disable monitoring of Auto Scaling groups, use the following configuration:

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  enabled: false

Configuring monitoring for AWS Auto Scaling across multiple AWS accounts

To set up monitoring of multiple AWS accounts with one AWS agent in the same region, you can use two approaches. For more information, see Monitoring multiple AWS accounts.

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  profile_names:
    - 'profile2'
    - 'profile3'

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  role_arns:
    - 'arn:aws:iam::<account_1_id>:role/<role_1_name>'
    - 'arn:aws:iam::<account_2_id>:role/<role_2_name>'

Filtering by defining tags

Instana monitors all AWS Auto Scaling groups by default. You can also filter which AWS Auto Scaling groups Instana monitors by defining tags in the configuration.yaml file. If you don't want to filter groups, you needn't define the tags.

To define multiple tags, separate them with commas. Define tags as a key-value pair. To simplify configuration, you can define which tags you want to include in discovery or exclude from discovery. If you define a tag in both lists (include and exclude), the exclude list take precedence. It’s not mandatory to define all values to enable filtering.

You can specify how often sensors poll the AWS tagged resources by using the tagged-services-poll-rate configuration property. By default, the value is 300 seconds.

Tags are only available with the AWS agent.

To define how often sensors poll the tagged resources, use the following configuration:

com.instana.plugin.aws:
  tagged-services-poll-rate: 60 #default 300

To include AWS Auto Scaling groups with tags into discovery, use the following configuration:

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  include_tags: # Comma separated list of tags in key:value format (e.g. env:prod,env:staging)

To exclude AWS Auto Scaling groups with tags from discovery, use the following configuration:

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  exclude_tags: # Comma separated list of tags in key:value format (e.g. env:dev,env:test)

AWS services without tags are monitored by default, but can be excluded by setting the include_untagged field to false:

com.instana.plugin.aws.autoscaling:
  include_untagged: false # True value by default

Configuration data

The AWS Auto Scaling sensor collects the following configuration data:

Metrics

The AWS Auto Scaling Group sensor collects the following metrics: