Amazon EC2 monitoring (via CloudWatch)
GoToManage enables you to collect everything and create a system-of-record for your IT and Operations - no matter where your applications are running. Automate the collection of all your on-premises and cloud-based data and index, search, and visualize it with no hassle.
The GoToManage service works with the Amazon CloudWatch API to gather EC2 resource utilization, performance, and overall user demand patterns. This includes critical metrics for ensuring operational excellence such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. GoToManage tracks all of the EC2 data and delivers real-time resource monitoring and capacity analysis capabilities. You can take advantage of the charts and dashboards that are pre-built for you (or made available by other GoToManage users in the GoToManage community section) or create your own using our powerful SQL-like query syntax. 
It only takes about five minutes to start monitoring your applications that are located in the cloud. The new release of the GoToManage Crawler (which does the data gathering for you) includes the Amazon plugin. The open source GoToManage Crawler was built to be easy to extend, so gathering new sources of data is a snap. The new Amazon EC2 plugin is written in Ruby. And when you configure the plugin in the "Crawlers" application in your GoToManage account (with your EC2 credentials), it will query Amazon's CloudWatch API every five minutes and gather and index the last five minutes of every available statistic. 
To use GoToManage and the new Amazon EC2 monitoring capabilities, you simply need to have or sign up for a GoToManage account. and choose to use the Amazon CloudWatch plugin. In addition, you need to log in to your Amazon account and select the EC2 instance(s) that you would like to monitor. Within minutes, the performance data will begin to be fed into your GoToManage account where it can be searched and analyzed through charts and dashboards.
Features:
- Automates the data collection for EC2 health and performance data
- Stores historical data for detailed search, analytics, and reporting
- Automated alerting based on customer-defined thresholds with email and SMS (via Twitter) notification options
Benefits:
- A single platform for monitoring on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure and applications
- Complete control over how you monitor and alert on your Amazon EC2 instance(s)
- Free to use
