Monitoring

By default, there's no out-of-the-box monitoring besides AWS instance level metrics that you get automatically, whereby better (1min) resolution can be enabled (default is 5min) via vm.detailed_monitoring for an extra cost.

For additional high-frequency metrics overload one could though enable Prometheus + node_exporter and make it accessible via Grafana, using self-signed certificates or plain http.

PS Beware - when setting monitoring.grafana.enabled admin password is automatically set to equal the instance name for convenience by default, if monitoring.grafana.admin_password not set!

PS2 Note that for public Grafana access to work, your Security Group of choice needs to have port 3000 open.

Relevant manifest attributes/defaults:

monitoring:
  prometheus_node_exporter:
    enabled: false
    externally_accessible: false
  grafana:
    enabled: false
    externally_accessible: true
    admin_user: pgspotops
    admin_password: "{{ instance_name }}"
    anonymous_access: true
    protocol: https

Relevant CLI flags:

--monitoring
--grafana-externally-accessible
--grafana-anonymous