Monitoring AWS with Amazon Route 53

To integrate AWS and Amazon Route 53 with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating AWS and Amazon Route 53 and how that can support your monitoring system.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform that provides a multitude of services. In fact, AWS provides more than 175 different services such as computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things. 

You can build, host, run, and monitor your software entirely within AWS. AWS eliminates the need for developers and businesses to have their own servers, databases, or networks. 

AWS is the world’s biggest and most widely adopted cloud platform. It has completely changed how web applications are built, and the nature of DevOps and SRE work.

There are many options for doing performance monitoring for applications built in AWS. AWS provides a monitoring tool called CloudWatch that automatically pulls in metrics from all areas of your application. However, using CloudWatch for everything can become very expensive.

If you’re monitoring a small application, CloudWatch will be suitable for your monitoring needs. However, if you’re monitoring a massive application with lots of custom metrics, the cost of monitoring with CloudWatch quickly escalates to beyond reasonable.

Monitoring your AWS with MetricFire is a great option for reducing the cost of your monitoring and for getting better functionality. MetricFire can pull your metrics directly from AWS and put them into a custom AWS monitoring dashboard. MetricFire can alert on these metrics, and can send notifications directly to your phone, email, or slack. 

Amazon Route 53 is a cloud-based domain name system (DNS) web service that you can use to connect user requests to applications running in AWS, such as Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon EC2. Route 53 is highly scalable with high availability and can also be used to route users to infrastructures outside of AWS, such as a web server or a data aggregator like Splunk. It provides businesses and developers a cost-effective and reliable tool to route end users to internet applications by translating domain names into numeric IP addresses.

Route 53 comes with a simple set of APIs that you can use to create and manage DNS records for your domains. Route 53 organizes your DNS records into "hosted zones" that you configure with Route 53's API.

With Amazon Route 53 Traffic, you can manage traffic globally using various routing types, including Geo DNS, Geoproximity, Latency Based Routing and Weighted Round Robin. You can combine these routing types with DNS Failover to enable low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. Using Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow's simple visual editor, you can easily manage how you route your end-users to your application's endpoints.

You can use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or independently monitor your application's health and its endpoints. Monitoring DNS health checks is where MetricFire can help you manage your DNS routing using Amazon Route 53.

By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the Metricfire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when your DNS routing is doing something it shouldn't.

To integrate AWS and Amazon Route 53 with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate AWS and Amazon Route 53 and get AWS and Amazon Route 53 interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. We enable you to use Hosted Graphite and aesthetic custom dashboards to visualize your metrics so you can understand what is happening.

MetricFire offers users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of popular open-source monitoring software services: Graphite and popular dashboards. Plugins for many other open-source projects are preconfigured, such as StatsD, collectd, and Kubernetes. You get all these within a hosted environment as a single product. Not only does MetricFire fit well into the infrastructure monitoring use-case, such as network monitoring and server monitoring, but we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.

Through this hosted environment, MetricFire boosts the unique features of open-source projects to give you more functionality than the original products. Below are some of the MetricFire features at a glance: 

Cloud Monitoring

Hosted Graphite

Dashboards

The key thing to remember is that Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is more than just Graphite. Our Hosted Graphite product actually adds data dimensionality and better data storage.

The benefits of MetricFire are:

Simple, low-cost pricing
A structured pricing model based on unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allow you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric.

Easy-to-use dashboards
Easily share your dashboards with clients for free.

Responsive alerting
Alert notification integrations PagerDuty, Slack, email, and webhooks.

Freedom of customization
Custom metrics through your code.

Fantastic customer support
Highly available support is provided by engineers for engineers to get you set up quickly.

Enterprise-ready
Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment.