Design and Architecture

Problem Statement – Configure Monitoring alerts to grafana from cloudwatch metrics

Status – POC Completed

Solution : Implement Grafana with Cloudwatch metrics

Steps :

• Create a EC2 server into AWS console(Recommended Ubuntu OS)
• Install docker into it (Reference : https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/)
• Configure Grafana container into it using below command (docker run -d –restart always –name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana)

• Expose 3000 port from EC2 machine
• Open the IP with :3000

• Default credentials for grafana would be admin:admin
• You can set the password which you like
• From AWS IAM create a user with programmatic access which is having Cloudwatch Full Access.

• In Grafana, Go to Configuration > Data Sources > Add new Data Source.
• Add Your Data Source name, Access Key, Secret Key, and Default region.
• Click on Test and Save.

• From Grafana dashboard find the Dashboard according to your usecase. (Link : https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/)
• Go to Dashboards > Import > Add Dashboard ID you found from above link and select your datasource.
• You will be able to see the dashboard as below