April 2021 update: For current information regarding Dynatrace monitoring of applications in AWS Elastic Beanstalk, please visit Dynatrace Help.
Dynatrace continues to introduce integrations with more cloud platforms!
Ease of installation and use are well known advantages of Dynatrace (see my recent blog post for details, Monitoring Dockerized applications). In this article I want to explore how to monitor applications that run on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk platform.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that allows you to quickly deploy applications and services to the AWS cloud with automated scaling of EC2 instances and load balancing. This is appealing to many organizations who don’t want to worry about capacity provisioning, scaling, and load balancing.
By including a predefined .ebextensions
configuration file with your deployment bundle you can have Beanstalk automatically install Dynatrace on all EC2 instances that you deploy. Dynatrace automatically detects the type of application you’re running on the platform and begins application monitoring. Even if you run your applications in Docker containers via Beanstalk, Dynatrace still gives you all the same deep monitoring functionality that is available for applications running on common hosts or bare EC2 instances.
1. Download the sample configuration file for Beanstalk
In our GitHub repository you’ll find a sample .ebextensions
configuration file that you can use as a template for your own configuration file. Please download the directory containing the sample file and add the directory to the deployment bundle that you plan to upload to Beanstalk.
2. Provide your tenant ID and token
You need to add your tenant ID and token to the 0dynatraceInstall.config
file within the .ebextensions
directory:
- From your Dynatrace homepage, click the menu icon in the menu bar and select Monitor another host.
- Select Linux as the platform that your applications run on
The displayedwget
command includes both your tenant ID and your token. - Open the
0ruxitInstall.config
file and modify the respective values forDYNATRACE_TENANT
andDYNATRACE_TOKEN
.
option_settings:
- option_name: DYNATRACE_TENANT
value: YOURTENANTID
- option_name: DYNATRACE_TOKEN
value: Y0urT0K3N4RUXIT
files:
"/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/pre/01_ruxit_install.sh":
mode: "000755"
owner: root
group: root
source: http://download.dynatrace.com/scripts/beanstalk_dynatrace_install.sh
3. Deploy with your application
Package the .ebextensions
directory (which now includes your modified 0ruxitInstall.config
file) with your application bundle and upload it to the Beanstalk console to start your Beanstalk environment.
That’s all there is to it! Once the environment is started you’ll see the new EC2 instances on your Dynatrace homepage.