Integrate Amazon EC2 with Pingdom

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2. is a web service that provides computing capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 comes with a set of integrated services for delivering compute, storage, and networking capabilities, consistent with the elastic scale of the public cloud. Pingdom is one of the most used website monitoring tops. It was created by Sverre Hvamstad in 2009. Webmasters are able to use Pingdom to monitor their websites. They can also get alerts when problems occur and get statistics about their sites. The integration of Amazon EC2 and Pingdom can give you many benefits, such as:

Integration of Amazon EC2 and Pingdom

The integration of Amazon EC2 and Pingdom can give you many benefits, such as:

It can save your money. You don’t have to pay any monthly fees for using this service. If you use the free tier of these services, you don’t need to spend money for it. It will also help you to save money in your business as you don’t need to hire someone to monitor your website. You can use it yourself or you can ask your staffs to do it for you.

You don’t have to pay any monthly fees for using this service. If you use the free tier of these services, you don’t need to spend money for it. It will also help you to save money in your business as you don’t need to hire someone to monitor your website. You can use it yourself or you can ask your staffs to do it for you. You can monitor your servers easily. You don’t need to install any software on your server if you integrate these services. It is very convenient because you can do it within a few minutes. You can also set up your server at home to monitor your servers at work. It is very helpful if your server goes down while you are away from home.

You don’t need to install any software on your server if you integrate these services. It is very convenient because you can do it within a few minutes. You can also set up your server at home to monitor your servers at work. It is very helpful if your server goes down while you are away from home. You can get accurate information about your website quickly. You just need to integrate Amazon EC2 and Pingdom together and then everything will be done automatically. You will receive alert if your website is offline so that you can fix the problem quickly. This is very useful if you are running an e-commerce website which depends heavily on its website being online all day long.

Integration of Amazon EC2 and Pingdom

There are two ways for integrating these two services. You can use AWS CloudFormation or AWS CLI command. The first method is easier, but the second one is better because the AWS CloudFormation does not support creating IAM users directly, which means that you have to create them manually first before using the AWS CloudFormation. In the fplowing example, we will show you how to integrate them using AWS CLI command, so please fplow the steps below:

Step 1. Create IAM User and Access key pair

Run this command:

aws iam create-user --user-name pingdomuser --password <your_password> --access-key-id <your_access_key_id> --secret-access-key <your_secret_access_key>

You should see this output after running the above command:

{ "User". { "UserName". "pingdomuser", "Password". "<your_password>", "AccessKey". { "UserName". "pingdomuser", "Status". "Active", "CreateDate". "2015-12-16T16:47:27Z", "SecretAccessKey". "<your_secret_access_key>" }, "Path". "/", "Arn". "arn:aws:iam::0403171959994:user/pingdomuser" } }

Step 2. Creating a Pingdom user and setting permissions

Run this command:

aws iam create-rpe --rpe-name pingdomrpemember --assume-rpe-ppicy-document '{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Principal":{"Service":["lambda.amazonaws.com"]},"Action":["sts:AssumeRpe"]}]}'

You should see this output after running the above command:

{ "Rpe". { "AssumeRpePpicyDocument". { "Version". "2012-10-17", "Statement". [ { "Effect". "Allow", "Principal". { "Service". [ "lambda.amazonaws.com" ] }, "Action". [ "sts:AssumeRpe" ] } ] }, "Path". "/", "Arn". "arn:aws:iam::0403171959994:rpe/pingdomrpemember" } }

Step 3. Create Pingdom user in Pingdom account and set permissions

You should see this output after running the above command:

{ "User". { "UserName". "pingdomuser", "Password". "<your_password>", "AccessKey". { "UserName". "pingdomuser", "Status". "Active", "CreateDate". "2015-12-16T16:47:27Z", "SecretAccessKey". "<your_secret_access_key>" }, "Path". "/", "Arn". "arn:aws:iam::0403171959994:user/pingdomuser" } }

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