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A look at AWS EC2 instances in terms of honey badgers vs. blue whales vs. unicorns vs. sloths. Only ones missing were the Mantis Shrimp (we tried) and the Megladon (hey it's Shark Week)

An in process JMX metrics exporter, inspired by the standalone version of jmxtrans but embedded inside your java process (e.g. Tomcat). Also includes a set of embedded jmxtrans samples to POST metrics to the CopperEgg…

How to get started with AWS CloudFront based on our lessons learned. Describes the important fields you will need to fill in or adjust and what you can probably leave as default.

Many devops and admins have used, and in some cases continue to use, Nagios as a key part of their cloud monitoring infrastructure. We’ve had many conversations about their Nagios use cases, likes, dislikes, and the…

Many pundits and analysts have declared the concept of cloud computing as the Third Platform (for IT). If you have critical projects in mobility, cloud services, social technologies, or Big Data, it’s time to make that…

Pre-built scripts allow you to monitor PostgreSQL metrics and include these popular metrics out of the box: Index rows fetched, Commits, Locks, Rollbacks, and Blocks hit. Monitor via SaaS, great for AWS, cloud…

From Harvest: "...We have a room in Hipchat which collects the pulse of our activities. This includes code pushes to Github, production and staging deployment activity, customer support tickets, twitter mentions and all…

Using hierarchical edge bundling to build cloud system topology maps that visualize system connectivity and application communication.

Five critical Redis database performance metrics to monitor closely and build alerts around - e.g., instantaneous_ops_per_sec which tracks total operations/sec; so you can watch for dips and spikes that are not normal…

CopperEgg recently introduced its probe LWRP, which is included in the CopperEgg cookbook. This provider allows you to instantly add, update and remove any number of external website monitoring probes on any chef run.

Chef cookbook overview and example on how to bootstrap a Centos EC2 instance with CopperEgg server monitoring

New heatmaps, custom cloud monitoring dashboards, and iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile apps announced. Designed for hybrid monitoring across clouds, enterprise+cloud, and inside the enterprise as well. Custom dashboards…

When you are autoscaling lots of spot instances, or kill off systems during a code deploy, you don’t care if the system goes away, because that is what you intended to happen. Normally when spots or on-demand instances…

Amazon has a few storage options (we’re talking block storage here, not object stores like S3): Instance store, EBS (Elastic Block Storage), and now Provisioned IOPS EBS. This blog post explores each one and then drills…

Overview of recent Amazon AWS DynamoDB analysis for production use at CopperEgg - details out use cases for & against, performance, operational considerations, what's missing, and what's cool.

RESTful API that provides open programmatic access for automating and orchestrating server monitoring, website uptime analysis, and cloud infrastructure management - integrated with CopperEgg SaaS service. The CopperEgg…

Just posted on GitHub, a free cloud capacity planning utility tool for public and private cloud server filesystems to be used in conjunction with CopperEgg RevealCloud (as a free add-on) and built on the CopperEgg API,…

Analysis and a link to an EC2 instance cheatsheet (e.g., cg1.4xlarge, t1.micro, c1.xlarge, cc2.8xlarge) with perf & cost details including cheapest cost per CPU, worst CPU steal, most expensive cost per GB memory,…

Step-by-step guide to setting up and using Amazon's new AWS cost allocation feature.