Elastic Compute Service:Implement automatic resource monitoring by group based on tags

Step 1: Create instances that have a specified tag add

You can create instances that have a specified tag added or add a specified tag to existing instances. For more information, see Create or add a tag. Alternatively, you can perform the following operations to use Auto Scaling to add a specified tag to the instances in a scaling group:

1. Log on to the Auto Scaling console.
2. Create a scaling group.
   For more information, see Manage scaling groups. In this example, the following operations are performed:

   • Set Minimum Number of Instances to 4.
   • Specify Scaling Policy based on your business requirements to implement high-availability auto scaling.

   
3. Create a scaling configuration.
   For more information, see Create scaling configurations for scaling groups that contain ECS instances. You must add the testKey:testValue tag in the System Configurations (Optional) step.
4. Go to the scaling group details page, click the Instances tab, and then view the ECS instances that are automatically created in the scaling group.
   

Step 2: Create a CloudMonitor application group

1. Log on to the CloudMonitor console.
2. Create a CloudMonitor application group.
   For more information, see Create an application group.

   In this example, Creation Method is set to Create Based on Tags and the testKey:testValue tag is added to the matching rule to create an application group. Then, the instances that have the tag added are assigned to the application group.

   1. Set Creation Method to Create Based on Tags.
      
   2. Set Resource Tag Key to testKey and specify the Tag Value parameter based on your needs. In this example, Contain is selected from the Tag Value drop-down list and testValue is entered in the Tag Value field.
      

Step 3: View the monitoring information of the ECS instances

You can use one of the following methods to view the information of the ECS instances:

Method 1: View the monitoring information of the ECS instances based on their application group in the CloudMonitor console.

1. Log on to the CloudMonitor console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Application Groups.
3. On the Application Group tab, select Resource Tag from the drop-down list, enter testKey in the search box, and then click Search.
   
4. Click testKey-testValue-53** / 22****** in the Group Name / Group ID column to view the resources in the group.
   The ECS instances that are automatically created in the scaling group are automatically added to the application group.

Method 2: View the monitoring information of the ECS instances in the ECS console.

1. Log on to the ECS console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Tags.
3. In the top navigation bar, select a region.
4. On the Tags page, click the Custom Tags tab.
5. Enter testKey in the search box to search for the tag.
6. Click View Monitoring Details in the Actions column.
   
   Go to the Monitoring tab to view the monitoring, alert, and event information of the ECS instances in the application group that has the tag added.