AWS Auto Scaling enables the configuration of automatic scaling for the AWS resources as part of the application.

Auto Scaling Group Resource Information:

• Type of Resource: Generic monitorable resource
• Discovery type: AWS SDK discovery type
• Discovery profile selection: Resource can be discovered by “Auto Scaling” in the profiler
• ResourceTag: AUTO_SCALING
• Resource Unique Identification: AutoScalingGroupArn (grp.autoScalingGroupARN())
• Dependencies: Auto Scaling Group depends on VPC, subnets, launch configurations, and may integrate with load balancers

Autoscale Scaling Policy Resource Information:

• Type of Resource: Generic non-monitorable resource
• Discovery type: AWS SDK discovery type
• Discovery profile selection: Resource can be discovered by “Autoscale Scaling Policy” in the profiler
• ResourceTag: AWS_AUTOSCALE_SCALING_POLICY
• Resource Unique Identification: PolicyArn (policy.policyARN())
• Dependencies: Scaling Policy runs on Auto Scaling Groups and may integrate with CloudWatch alarms

AutoScale Scheduled Action Resource Information:

• Type of Resource: Generic non-monitorable resource
• Discovery type: AWS SDK discovery type
• Discovery profile selection: Resource can be discovered by “AutoScale Scheduled Action” in the profiler
• ResourceTag: AWS_AUTOSCALE_SCHEDULED_ACTION
• Resource Unique Identification: ScheduledActionArn (action.scheduledActionARN())
• Dependencies: Scheduled Action runs on Auto Scaling Groups and executes based on scheduled configurations

AutoScale Launch Configuration Resource Information:

• Type of Resource: Generic non-monitorable resource
• Discovery type: AWS SDK discovery type
• Discovery profile selection: Resource can be discovered by “AutoScale Launch Configuration” in the profiler
• ResourceTag: AWS_AUTOSCALE_LAUNCH_CONFIG
• Resource Unique Identification: LaunchConfigArn (config.launchConfigurationARN())
• Dependencies: Launch Configuration may depend on AMIs, security groups, and key pairs for instance configuration

The AWS Auto Scaling console provides a single user interface to use the automatic scaling features of multiple AWS services.

• Configure automatic scaling for individual resources or whole applications.
• Configure and manage scaling for resources through a scaling plan.

The scaling plan uses dynamic scaling and predictive scaling to automatically scale application resources.

Use the AWS public cloud integration to discover and collect metrics against the AWS service.

External reference

What is AWS Auto Scaling?

Setup

To set up the AWS integration and discover the AWS service, go to AWS Integration Discovery Profile and select Auto Scaling.

Event support

CloudTrail event support

• Supported
• Configurable in OpsRamp AWS Integration Discovery Profile.

CloudWatch alarm support

• Supported
• Configurable in OpsRamp AWS Integration Discovery Profile.

Supported metrics