Monitoring: AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a service that makes it easy to deploy, manage and scale web applications on AWS. You can quickly deploy and monitor secure applications developed in Ruby, Python, Java and .NET. Elastic Beanstalk manages your infrastructure so you can focus on rapid development of features that differentiate your application from the competition.

Why should you monitor AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Monitoring your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment is important for several reasons, including:

1. Performance optimization: Monitoring your Elastic Beanstalk environment allows you to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of your application. You can monitor key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network traffic to ensure your application is running smoothly and responding to user requests quickly.
2. Availability: Monitoring your Elastic Beanstalk environment ensures that your application is available and responsive to user requests. You can monitor metrics such as HTTP response codes and error rates to quickly identify any issues and take action to resolve them before they impact your users.
3. Cost optimization: Monitoring your Elastic Beanstalk environment can help you optimize your costs by identifying idle resources that can be shut down, and by identifying underutilized resources that can be downsized or removed. This can help you reduce your overall infrastructure costs and maximize the value of your resources.
4. Security: Monitoring your Elastic Beanstalk environment can help you identify security issues such as unauthorized access attempts, data breaches, and other vulnerabilities. You can monitor security-related metrics such as authentication failures, traffic patterns, and system logs to quickly identify and respond to security threats.

How does monitoring Amazon Macie findings work?

Without further ado, marbot monitors AWS Elastic Beanstalk and delivers alerts and notifications about your applications and environments. Here is what such an alert looks like in Microsoft Teams.

And here is the same alert in Slack.

How to setup monitoring of AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

marbot works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. Please select your platform and follow the Getting started guide.

• marbot for Slack
• marbot for Microsoft Teams