How To Use CVT?
How To Use?
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Create Your CVT Registration
To register for the first time, click the Register button
You will be redirected to a form where you need to fill in the fields with your data.
Initially, you should choose the country of origin and the desired plan.
If you are a user from Brazil and have not chosen the Free Plan, you will need to specify whether you are an individual or a business.
The current plans are:
- • Free
- • Essentials
- • Premium
Required fields:
- First Name •
- Last Name •
- CPF/CNPJ* •
- Email •
The password must have:
- Minimum of 8 characters •
- Minimum of 1 number •
- Minimum of 1 special character •
After saving the data, an email will be sent to confirm the registered account. Once the email is confirmed, you have access to CVT resources.
Register an AWS Access Key
Log in to CVT.
Then, access the option in the side menu:
Cloud → Cloud Configuration
Click the button +Add that appears on the screen.
The Choose the services option allows you to choose which services the CVT will monitor using this access (see example beside: monitoring EC2 instances and Cost Control).
Fill out the form defining the name you will use to identify this configuration; the region where the AWS account is registered; the access key and secret key generated in the AWS account.
Save the registration.
The key you saved will appear in the list of configured keys, along with all the keys you register.
To edit a key registration, just click the button…to the right of the selected record and select the option Edit.
Once a key is registered, CVT starts monitoring and presenting the results associated with the account resources:
Monitored resources:
- • List of registered Tags
- • List of created instances
- • List of created buckets
- • List of created Lambdas
- • Costs of each resource contracted in AWS
Resource collection may take up to 24 hours to be completed and available to you.
All Tags registered in AWS are imported into the system and can be used to control user access to a certain set of services in AWS.
Create Access Profiles
When a user is registered in CVT, they obtain full access to the platform, being able to view and edit any account record.
However, new users created from this main account can have their access limited for security and control, hence the need to create profiles and associate them with these new registrations.
To access the profiles, first log in to CVT
Then, access the side menu in the following options:
Profile → Profile Settings
Click the button +Add that appears on the screen.
Fill out the form by providing an identification name for this configuration.
Then select the resources that will be released to users associated with this Access Profile.
For example, it is possible to define that a certain profile has permission to view the settings screen but cannot edit a record.
Permissions work as follows:
- • View → View records
- • Edit → Edit a record
- • Create → Add a new record
- • Remove → Delete a record
Tags are automatically retrieved by CVT after an access key is registered.
At this point, you can limit or grant access to certain AWS resources linked to a Tag.
Save the registration.
The profile you saved will appear in the list of configured profiles, along with all the profiles you register.
To edit a profile, just click the button...to the right of the selected record and select the option Edit.
Register Users
Log in to CVT.
Then, access the side menu option:
Users → List
Click the button +Add that appears on the screen.
Fill out the form with information about the new user.
In the field Profile specify the access profile that this new user will have.
In the field Language specify the user's language (pt-br or en-us).
Required fields:
- • First Name
- • Last Name
The password must have:
- • Minimum of 8 characters
- • Minimum of 1 number
- • Minimum of 1 special character
Save the registration.
After saving the data, an email will be sent to confirm the registered user. Once the email is confirmed, the user has access to CVT resources, limited by the profile.
The user you saved will appear in the list of registered users, along with all the users you register.
To edit a user registration, just click the button...to the right of the selected record and select the option Edit.
Configure Alarms
First, you need to log in to the system.
Then, access the side menu option:
Cloud → Alarm Config
Click the button +Add that appears on the screen.
Define the name and description of the alarm to be created.
Then select which Tags or which instances the system should monitor; you must select at least 1 option.
You must define which metric to monitor (Memory usage, CPU, disk, etc.), how many occurrences should happen, and the interval between them.
Next, you should configure the opening and closing expression of an alarm.
CVT automatically controls when an alarm should be opened or closed according to the defined operations.
The image above defines an alarm monitoring memory percentage. If the collected value is greater than 80%, 2 times within a 10-minute interval, CVT will open an alarm informing which instance is in this situation.
After saving, you can view all registered entries in the main table.
To edit a record, just click the button to the right of the selected record...and click the option Edit.
To view open alarms (or the history), access the side menu option:
Cloud → Alarm Cockpit
Register Budgets
First, you need to log in to the system.
Then, access the side menu option:
Pricing → Budget
Click the button +Add that appears on the screen.
Define the name and description of the budget to be created.
Then define the type of budget, which can be:
- • Daily (starts and ends every day)
- • Weekly (starts every Monday and ends on Sunday)
- • Monthly (starts on the 1st and ends on the last day of the month)
- • Annually (starts every 01/01 and ends on 12/31)
If the type is selected Period, you must inform the day and month the budget will start and the day and month it will end (if the budget is not recurring, you must also provide the start and end year)..
The system will monitor spending within the selected period, always resetting the spending when it starts.
Next, you must inform which resource is to be monitored and the available limit value.
Then define the type of budget, which can be:
- • Resource (the AWS service)
- • Tag (total tag spending)
- • Configuration (total spending of the selected account)
It is possible to make combinations between the available resources; for example, when selecting the EC2 service and a Tag, the system will monitor only EC2 spending within the chosen tag.
The Layers are informational notices from the system as the budget reaches a certain value.
It is possible to define several layers to keep spending under control within the previously selected period.
The image above shows 3 notices, called Alert, Warning, and Danger, which will be created if the budget exceeds 25%, 50%, and 75%, respectively..
After saving, you can view all registered entries in the main table.
To edit a record, just click the button to the right of the selected record...and click the option Edit.
Install CloudWatch Agent
Important Reminder!
To collect detailed metrics such as disk and memory usage on your AWS instances, you must have the CloudWatch Agent installed.
Furthermore, for the CloudWatch Agent to work correctly, you need to configure some rules within AWS.
This is extremely important for the proper functioning of the agent.
Below you will find a tutorial explaining how to install the CloudWatch Agent step by step.
1.Preparation
- • AWS Access: Make sure you have an AWS account with appropriate permissions to manage EC2 instances and configure CloudWatch.
- • EC2 Instance: Have a running EC2 instance on which you want to install the CloudWatch Agent.
2.Preparing the EC2 Instance
- • Via SSH: Connect to your EC2 instance using SSH.
- • Update packages: Ensure all packages are up to date.
3.Download and Install the CloudWatch Agent
- • Download the CloudWatch Agent package:
For Amazon Linux e Red Hat:
For Ubuntu e Debian:
4.Configure the CloudWatch Agent
- • Interactive Configuration: Run the configuration command to start the interactive process.
- • Follow the instructions: The setup wizard will ask you questions about what you want to monitor. Respond as needed to configure the agent.
5.Start the CloudWatch Agent
- • Start the service:
6.Verify Installation
- • Check status:
- • If you return "status": "running" the cloudwatch agent is working correctly!
Create IAM Role
Important Reminder!
This step-by-step tutorial guides you to create a function IAM (IAM Role) and associate it with a permissions policy called "CloudWatchAgentAdminPolicy".
This policy will provide the necessary permissions for the CloudWatch Agent to collect and send metrics and logs to Amazon CloudWatch.
1.Access the AWS IAM Console
- 1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
- 2. In the navigation pane, choose IAM.
- 3. In the navigation panel on the left of your screen, maximize the options Access Management and click on Roles.
2.Creating a Role
- 1. Click on the button Create Role.
- 2. In options Trusted entity type select Aws Service is at Use case select Ec2, After selecting the options, click on the button Next.
- 3. Now add the Permission police called CloudWatchAgentAdminPolicy, After selecting it, click on the button Next.
- 4. Give your new Role a name and description and click the button Create role.
2.Assign this new IAM Role to your instance
- 1. Select the EC2 instance you want to link to IAM Role.
- 2. With the instance selected, click Actions in the top menu.
- 3. Navigate to Security and select Modify IAM Role.
- 4. In the drop-down menu IAM role, Select the role you want to link to the instance.
- 5. Click in Update IAM role.
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