AWS CloudWatch

Asserts AWS CloudWatch
Asserts can monitor AWS Services, including Serverless technologies like AWS Lambda and AWS ECS Fargate. The following Asserts components must be installed to start monitoring your AWS Services.
Asserts AWS Exporter installed as an ECS Service.
Asserts Layer for NodeJS and Python AWS Lambda functions. These layers export CPU,  Memory, and other runtime metrics of the Lambda function
Asserts ECS Exporter installed as a sidecar container in each ECS Task definition. This sidecar exports CPU, Memory, and Network metrics for the ECS Task.
Here is a diagram that shows how these components function
Asserts Components for AWS Monitoring
Installing the Asserts AWS Exporter
The Asserts AWS Exporter must be installed on each AWS Account that needs to be monitored. Asserts provides a CloudFormation template to install the exporter. The link, install AWS Exporter as shown in the image below will launch the CloudFormation template to install the AWS Exporter.
Link to launch CloudFormation template for AWS Exporter installation
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The following inputs would need to be provided -
VPC and Subnets
1.VPC Id The VPC in which the Asserts AWS Exporter ECS Service needs to be installed. 
2.VPC CIDR The CIDR of the VPC
3.Subnets The subnets for the service instances. At least 2 subnets in different availability zones need to be provided
ECS Cluster and Log Group Settings
1.ECS Cluster Name The ECS Cluster name under which the asserts exporter services will be created. Defaults to asserts-aws-integration
2.Log Group Name The CloudWatch log group name under which the logs for the services will be stored. Defaults to asserts-aws-integration
3.Log Group Retention Period The log retention. Defaults to 7 days
4.Enable Container Insights This is an ECS Cluster level setting that will determine if ECS resource utilization metrics need to be captured at the container level. This defaults to enabled. This has cost implications so if cost is a concern, it can be set to disabled
Asserts TSDB and API Server Credentials
1.Asserts Tenant Name If your asserts application URL is https://acme.app.asserts.ai, your tenant name is acme
2.Asserts Remote Write URL For e.g. https://acme.tsdb.asserts.ai
3.Asserts Remote Write Password The Asserts remote write password
4.Asserts API Server URL For e.g. https://acme.app.asserts.ai
5.Asserts API Server API User Name An API key can be created in Asserts. In the Asserts product, Go to your Profile -> Settings -> Credentials and create a new credential. Copy the Id and Secret for use later. Specify the Id as the User name
6.Asserts API Server API Password Specify the Secret as the password
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Create Asserts Service API Credentials
The CloudFormation template creates an API key to allow the Asserts server to read CloudWatch metrics from this account. 
CloudFormation output
After installing the exporter, add the AWS account along with the API key.
Installing Asserts Lambda Layer
Asserts provides Lambda layers for NodeJS and Python to monitor CPU, Memory, and other runtime aspects. To add these layers to your functions, refer to the README of these GitHub projects.
Installing the Asserts ECS sidecar container 
The ECS sidecar container needs to be included in the task definition of each ECS Task. Here is a sample JSON excerpt of the sidecar container definition that can be added to your existing task definition JSON.
{
  "logConfiguration": {
    "logDriver": "awslogs",
    "secretOptions": null,
    "options": {
      "awslogs-group": "<GROUP-NAME>",
      "awslogs-region": "<REGION>",
      "awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs-dockerstats-exporter"
    }
  },
  "portMappings": [
    {
      "hostPort": 8014,
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "containerPort": 8014
    }
  ],
  "image": "asserts/ecs-dockerstats-exporter:v1.0.0",
  "essential": true,
  "name": "ecs-dockerstats-exporter"
}
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