Alibaba Cloud ECS¶

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

Configuration¶

Install Func¶

It is recommended to enable Guance integration - extension - DataFlux Func (Automata)

If you deploy Func yourself, refer to Self-deployed Func

Enable Script¶

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

Enable script for Automata¶

Log in to Guance console
Click on the 【Integration】 menu and select 【Cloud Account Management】
Click 【Add Cloud Account】, choose 【Alibaba Cloud】, fill in the required information on the interface; if cloud account information has been configured before, ignore this step
Click 【Test】, after a successful test click 【Save】; if the test fails, check whether the related configuration information is correct and retest
In the 【Cloud Account Management】 list, you can see the added cloud account. Click the corresponding cloud account to enter the details page
Click the 【Integration】 button on the cloud account detail page. Under the Not Installed list, find Alibaba Cloud ECS, click the 【Install】 button, and install it via the installation interface.

Manual Enable Script¶

Log in to the Func console, click 【Script Market】, go to the official script market, and search:guance_aliyun_ecs
Click 【Install】, then input the corresponding parameters: Alibaba Cloud AK ID, AK Secret, and account name.
Click 【Deploy Startup Script】, the system will automatically create a Startup script set and configure the corresponding startup script automatically.
After enabling, you can see the corresponding automatic trigger configuration in 「Management / Automatic Trigger Configuration」. Click 【Execute】 to run it immediately without waiting for the scheduled time. Wait a moment, you can view the execution task records and corresponding logs.

We collect some configurations by default, see the Metrics section for details.

Configure Custom Cloud Object Metrics

Verification¶

In 「Management / Automatic Trigger Configuration」, confirm whether the corresponding task has an automatic trigger configuration. You can also check the task records and logs to ensure there are no abnormalities.
In Guance, 「Infrastructure / Custom」, check if asset information exists.
In Guance, 「Metrics」, check if there are corresponding monitoring data.

Metrics¶

After configuring Alibaba Cloud - Cloud Monitor, the default Measurement set is as follows. You can collect more Metrics through configuration. Alibaba Cloud Cloud Monitor Metric Details

Note: You need to install the monitoring plugin 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 reads BPS	float	bytes/s
`DiskWriteBPS`	All disk writes BPS	float	bytes/s
`DiskReadIOPS`	All disk reads per second	float	Count/Second
`DiskWriteIOPS`	All disk writes per second	float	Count/Second
`disk_readiops`	Disk reads per second	float	Count/Second
`disk_writeiops`	Disk writes per second	float	Count/Second
`diskusage_utilization`	`Host.diskusage.utilization`	float	%
`fs_inodeutilization`	(Agent)fs.inode.utilization_device	float	%
`GroupVPC_PublicIP_InternetInRate`	Public IP dimension inbound bandwidth	float	bits/s
`GroupVPC_PublicIP_InternetOutRate`	Public IP dimension 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

Objects¶

The collected Alibaba Cloud ECS object data structure can be seen from 「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 NIC JSON data}, ... ]",
    "instance_renew_attribute": "[ {automatic renewal 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}"
  }
}