Cloud Deployment
Cloud Provider Support - Amazon EC2 and CloudWatch
Amazon provide their own basic monitoring called CloudWatch as part of their EC2 service. This monitors CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic without the need for any agent. Server Density can pull this data in automatically, graph it, and allow you to configure alerts.
Simply enable CloudWatch for your instances and then go to Servers > Add Server and select the Add cloud server button from the right hand side cloud provider box. Server Density will pull your server list and you can choose which instances to add. Cloudwatch monitoring will start immediately.
Video demo - Amazon EC2
Cloud Provider Support - Others
In addition to EC2, Server Density is able to connect to a number of different cloud providers to automatically pull in your server list. Although you still need to install the agent on each server, this will save some time where you have a lot of servers.
Basic functionality
- Pull in a list of all servers and choose which servers you want to import, automatically populating the fields within Server Density.
- Keep track of the status of cloud servers so when they are terminated, they will automatically be marked for deletion within Server Density. You then have 24 hours to undo the deletion before the data is permanently removed as with a normal server.
Supported Providers
- Amazon EC2 (US and EU)
- GoGrid
- Linode
- Rackspace Cloud
- Rimuhosting
- Slicehost
- vCloud
- VPS.NET
vCloud note
The hostname is defined by your vCloud provider. For example, for Terremark vCloud Express, the hostname is services.vcloudexpress.terremark.com.