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PetroGromovo's avatar

Switch from dev to production on aws how to monitor it with more requests ?

My laravel 8 / Mysql 5 app in dev mode is located on AWS Ec2 with Rds (Mysql 5) Free tier installed. Now I want to switch to production with much more requests to site and mysql database and wonder are there some criteria when I have to set more power to Rds and to all components of my site? Are there some practical manuals/monitoring tools for that?

Thanks in advance!

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PetroGromovo's avatar

Thanks! I reviewed some documents and docs and I want to create events on some events :

  1. I use free tier account now for AWS learning only. In some cases payment can be charged. How can I create an event when some payment is charged from me ?
  2. Working with php/laravel/mysql application under apache 2 can I create an event with notifications when I have some critical errors?
neilstee's avatar

@petrogromovo

  1. I think you can set a notification in your AWS account including a threshold on how much you are willing to be charged only.
  2. Still CloudWatch, you have to read more on how to integrate it to those stacks.

Also, a little tip, if you are hosting your MySQL in an EC2 instance, you might want to check using AWS RDS instead.

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