Alibaba Cloud ECS¶

The displayed Metrics of Alibaba Cloud ECS include CPU utilization, memory utilization, network bandwidth, and disk IOPS, which reflect the computing, memory, network, and storage performance of ECS instances.

Configuration¶

Install Func¶

It is recommended to enable TrueWatch Integration - Extensions - DataFlux Func (Automata)

For self-deployment of Func, refer to Self-deployment of Func

Enable Script¶

Note: Please prepare the Alibaba Cloud AK with the required permissions in advance (for simplicity, you can directly grant the global read-only permission ReadOnlyAccess)

Enable Script for DataFlux Func (Automata)¶

Log in to the TrueWatch console
Click the 【Integration】 menu and select 【Cloud Account Management】
Click 【Add Cloud Account】, select 【Alibaba Cloud】, and fill in the required information on the interface. If the cloud account information has been configured before, ignore this step
Click 【Test】, and after the test is successful, click 【Save】. If the test fails, please check if the relevant configuration information is correct and test again
Click 【Cloud Account Management】 to see the added cloud account in the list, and click the corresponding cloud account to enter the details page
Click the 【Integration】 button on the cloud account details page, find Alibaba Cloud ECS under the Not Installed list, and click the 【Install】 button to pop up the installation interface for installation.

Manually Enable Script¶

Log in to the Func console, click 【Script Market】, enter the TrueWatch script market, and search for: integration_alibabacloud_ecs
After clicking 【Install】, enter the corresponding parameters: Alibaba Cloud AK ID, AK Secret, and account name.
Click 【Deploy Startup Script】, the system will automatically create the Startup script set and automatically configure the corresponding startup scripts.
After enabling, you can see the corresponding automatic trigger configuration in 「Management / Automatic Trigger Configuration」. Click 【Execute】 to execute it immediately without waiting for the scheduled time. After a while, you can check the execution task records and corresponding logs.

Verification¶

Confirm in 「Management / Automatic Trigger Configuration」 whether the corresponding task has the corresponding automatic trigger configuration, and you can also check the corresponding task records and logs to see if there are any exceptions
In TrueWatch, check if there is asset information in 「Infrastructure / Custom」
In TrueWatch, check if there is corresponding monitoring data in 「Metrics」

Metrics¶

After configuring Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor, the default Measurement is as follows. More Metrics can be collected through configuration Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor Metrics Details

Note: The monitoring plugin needs to be installed in the Aliyun ECS console

Metric	Description	Type	Unit
`CPUUtilization`	CPU utilization	float	%
`memory_usedutilization`	Memory utilization	float	%
`load_1m`	load.1m	float	count
`load_15m`	load.15m	float	count
`load_5m`	load.5m	float	count
`DiskReadBPS`	All disk read BPS	float	bytes/s
`DiskWriteBPS`	All disk write BPS	float	bytes/s
`DiskReadIOPS`	All disk read operations per second	float	Count/Second
`DiskWriteIOPS`	All disk write operations per second	float	Count/Second
`disk_readiops`	Disk read operations per second	float	Count/Second
`disk_writeiops`	Disk write operations per second	float	Count/Second
`diskusage_utilization`	`Host.diskusage.utilization`	float	%
`fs_inodeutilization`	(Agent)fs.inode.utilization_device	float	%
`GroupVPC_PublicIP_InternetInRate`	IP dimension public network inbound bandwidth	float	bits/s
`GroupVPC_PublicIP_InternetOutRate`	IP dimension public network outbound bandwidth	float	bits/s
`IntranetInRate`	Intranet inbound bandwidth	float	bits/s
`IntranetOutRate`	Intranet outbound bandwidth	float	bits/s
`concurrentConnections`	Concurrent connections	float	count
`cpu_wait`	(Agent)cpu.wait	float	%
`cpu_user`	(Agent)cpu.user	float	%
`cpu_system`	(Agent)cpu.total	float	%
`memory_freeutilization`	(Agent)memory.free.utilization	float	%
`disk_readbytes`	(Agent)disk.read.bytes_device	float	bytes/s
`disk_writebytes`	(Agent)disk.write.bytes_device	float	bytes/s
`networkin_rate`	(Agent)network.in.rate_device	float	bits/s
`networkin_packages`	(Agent)network.in.packages_device	float	Count/s
`net_tcpconnection`	(Agent)network.tcp.connection_state	float	Count
`memory_freespace`	(Agent)memory.free.space	float	bytes
`memory_usedspace`	(Agent)memory.free.space	float	bytes
`memory_totalspace`	(Agent)memory.total.space	float	bytes

Object¶

The collected Alibaba Cloud ECS object data structure can be seen in 「Infrastructure - Custom」

{
  "measurement": "aliyun_ecs",
  "tags": {
    "name"                     : "i-xxxxx",
    "HostName"                 : "xxxxx",
    "InstanceName"             : "xxxxx",
    "InstanceId"               : "i-xxxxx",
    "RegionId"                 : "cn-hangzhou",
    "ZoneId"                   : "cn-hangzhou-a",
    "InstanceChargeType"       : "PrePaid",
    "InternetChargeType"       : "PayByTraffic",
    "OSType"                   : "linux",
    "PublicIpAddress_IpAddress": "['xxxx',]",
    "InstanceType"             : "ecs.c6.xlarge",
    "InstanceTypeFamily"       : "ecs.c6",
    "Status"                   : "Running"
  },
  "fields": {
    "CreationTime"           : "2022-01-01T00:00Z",
    "StartTime"              : "2022-01-02T00:00Z",
    "ExpiredTime"            : "2023-01-01T00:00Z",
    "disks"                  : "[ {associated disk JSON data}, ... ]",
    "network_interfaces"     : "[ {associated network interface JSON data}, ... ]",
    "instance_renew_attribute": "[ {auto-renew JSON data}, ...]",
    "instances_full_status"  : "[ {full status information JSON data}, ...]",
    "OperationLocks"         : "[ {lock reason JSON data}, ...]",
    "Memory"                 : "8192",
    "Cpu"                    : "4",
    "InternetMaxBandwidthOut": "0",
    "InternetMinBandwidthIn" : "0",
    "AutoReleaseTime"        : "xxxx",
    "message"                : "{instance JSON data}"
  }
}