3.0.00 features

This topic contains information about enhancements made in PATROL for Amazon EC2 3.0.00.

• • Monitor multiple AWS accounts by using trusted account
  • Ability to monitor Redis Engine in the ElastiCache service
  • Option to configure device mapping
  • Filter service instances by tags
  • Optional to provide proxy server credentials

Monitor multiple AWS accounts by using trusted account

Monitor multiple AWS accounts by using a single account as main account or trusted account. The trusted account is responsible for retrieving data from other or trusting accounts. For more information, see Prerequisites-for-configuring-Amazon-EC2-instance.

Ability to monitor Redis Engine in the ElastiCache service

Monitor Redis Engine in the ElastiCache service. The following classes are added:

• AWS-Redis-Cache-AWS_REDIS_CACHE
• AWS-Redis-Memory-AWS_REDIS_MEMORY
• AWS-Redis-Network-AWS_REDIS_NETWORK 

Option to configure device mapping

Enable or disable device mapping for a monitoring configuration. You can create the device name based on any of the following options:

• Private DNS (Private IPv4 address)
• Public DNS (Public IPv4 address)
• Instance ID
• Name Tag

For more information, see Configuring-the-Amazon-EC2-monitor-type.

Filter service instances by tags

Use tags to filter service instances that you want to monitor. For more information, see Configuring-the-Amazon-EC2-monitor-type.

Optional to provide proxy server credentials

If you do not want to authenticate proxy server configuration, you can choose to skip entering the username and password in the Proxy Server Configuration section. For more information, see Configuring-the-Amazon-EC2-monitor-type.