Automating Amazon EC2 Instances Monitoring with Prometheus EC2 Service Discovery and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article demonstrates how to use Prometheus EC2 Service Discovery with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector to automatically identify and scrape Prometheus metrics from Amazon EC2 instances in dynamic environments. Specifically, the article covers:
- Benefits of using EC2 Service Discovery with ADOT collector
- Solution architecture and walkthrough
- Setting up Amazon Managed Grafana to visualize Prometheus metrics
- Simulating a dynamic EC2 environment and automatic target discovery
- Key design considerations for EC2 Service Discovery with ADOT collector
- Conclusion and additional resources
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