Opsview 6.8.x End of Support
With the release of Opsview 6.11.0 on February 2025, versions 6.8.x have reached their End of Support (EOS) status, according to our Support policy. This means that versions 6.8.x will no longer receive code fixes or security updates.
The documentation for version 6.8.9 and earlier versions will remain accessible for the time being, but it will no longer be updated or receive backports. We strongly recommend upgrading to the latest version of Opsview to ensure continued support and access to the latest features and security enhancements.
Cloud - AWS - ELB CloudWatch Opspack
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. It enables you to achieve fault tolerance in your applications, seamlessly providing the required amount of load balancing capacity needed to route application traffic and is part of Opsview Monitor’s continuing support for AWS Monitoring.
What You Can Monitor Copied
With our Opsview Monitor AWS ELB Opspack, you can easily and affordably monitor Amazon Web Services ELB (Elastic Load Balancing). Our Opspack provides detailed monitoring with various metrics across your AWS cloud, including; latency, healthy hosts counts and backend connection errors.
Note: This Opspack knows when it was last run, so when testing the results in the troubleshoot section, you will need to wait a couple of minutes each time you recheck the results. The time frame that is searched for is based around the last time the Opspack ran, so running it too quickly will result in no data being found and the service check going into an unknown
Service Checks Copied
| Service Check | Description |
|---|---|
| AWS/ELB.BackendConnectionErrors | The number of connections that were not successfully established. |
| AWS/ELB.HealthyHostCount | The number of healthy instances registered with your load balancer. |
| AWS/ELB.HTTPCode_Backend | The number of HTTP response codes generated by registered instances. |
| AWS/ELB.HTTPCode_ELB | The number of HTTP response codes of each code from the load balancer. |
| AWS/ELB.Latency | The time elapsed, in seconds, after the request leaves the load balancer until the headers of the response are received. |
| AWS/ELB.RequestCount | The number of requests completed or connections made during the specified interval. |
| AWS/ELB.SpilloverCount | The total number of requests that were rejected because the surge queue is full. |
| AWS/ELB.SurgeQueueLength | The total number of requests that are pending routing. |
| AWS/ELB.UnHealthyHostCount | The number of unhealthy instances registered with your load balancer. |
Prerequisites Copied
Opsview Cloud
For Opsview Cloud customers, please contact ITRS Support for assistance with these steps, as they require Orchestrator access.
To be able to monitor AWS CloudWatch services you need to add your AWS credentials to your Opsview Monitor server.
We recommend adding your AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key ID to the default location (/opt/opsview/monitoringscripts/etc/plugins/cloud-aws/aws_credentials.cfg) using the following command after creating your aws_credentials.cfg file:
/opt/opsview/orchestrator/bin/orchestratorimportscripts etc-plugins cloud-aws /path/to/aws_credentials.cfg
This will set up the correct permissions for use. On a multi-cluster system, you can then run sync_monitoringscripts to distribute to all collectors at the same file location.
This credentials file should be in the following format:
[default]
aws_access_key_id = "Your Access Key Id"
aws_secret_access_key = "Your Secret Key Id"
If you are not using the default path, you will then need to assign your path to the variable: AWS_CLOUDWATCH_AUTHENTICATION.
Setup and Configuration Copied
Add the Host Template Copied
Add the Cloud - AWS - ELB CloudWatch Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host. If the resource you’re monitoring has no hostname or public IP, then open the Advanced settings pane and change Host Check Command to Always assumed to be UP.
Note
For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Host Templates to Hosts.
Add and configure the variables for the host Copied
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| AWS_CLOUDWATCH_AUTHENTICATION | Authentication details for CloudWatch. The Value is not used and therefore can be set to anything. Either override the File Path with the location of your credentials file, or override the Access Key and Secret Key arguments (this approach is recommended as the values will be encrypted). Optionally, override the Region (default: eu-west-1) with the location of your instance if you are not using the default region. |
| AWS_CLOUDWATCH_ROLE_ARN | This optional variable is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the role to be used for the service checks. Override the Access ARN with the ARN of the role. The account should have AssumeRole(STS) for this ARN. |
| AWS_ELB_LOAD_BALANCER_NAME | Load Balancer name from AWS. |
Note
For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Variables to Hosts.
Apply Changes Copied
Apply Changes and the system will then be monitored:
