StackDriver Integration with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Introduction

In Today's era where application server spreads across hundreds of machines, log-aggregation has become mandatory tool. It provides centralised location for browsing / searching through your logs coming from all of the server instances. Google's stack driver is indeed quite stable log-aggregation tool.

After reading this blog you will be able to:

send your multi-server logs to centralised location ie stack driver
monitor / search logs in real time
re-use same config on different elastic beanstalk environments (prod vs non-prod)

This tutorial is divided into two chapters:

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Auto Scaling DynamoDB

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StackDriver Integration with AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Part 1

Stack Driver Setup Step 1: Create stackdriver project Navigate to https://stackdriver.com After logging in you will be redirected to project creation page. To manage multiple environments of your application its advisable that you create just two projects. One for production env and other one for non-prod. Even though you might have multiple non-production environments, but having one stackdriver project per application-env is overkill. So, lets start with production project. For this tutorial, I'll create CodeHooDoo-Prod project. Once the project is created, StackDriver will ask you to link your AWS account resources to it for monitoring. But as AWS CloudWatch has good monitoring and alerting support you can skip this one. Keep clicking continue until you get to monitoring console. Click on the logging. This is where you will get all the logs from your application server. Step 2: Download authentication key Navigate backt to https://stackdriver.com .

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