Amazon CloudFront

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Plugin Pack Amazon CloudFront brings a host template:

• Cloud-Aws-CloudFront-custom

It brings the following service templates:

Service Alias	Service Template	Service Description	Default
Cloudfront-Errors	Cloud-Aws-Cloudfront-Errors-Api	Check pages access errors	X
Cloudfront-Requests	Cloud-Aws-Cloudfront-Requests-Api	Check requests number	X
Cloudfront-Throughput	Cloud-Aws-Cloudfront-Throughput-Api	Check upload and download throughputs	X

Discovery rules

The pack provides a discovery rule to automatically discover CloudFront resources:

More information about the Host Discovery module is available in the Centreon documentation: Host Discovery

Collected metrics & status

Cloudfront-Errors

Metric Name	Unit
cloudfront.errorrate.4xx.percentage	%
cloudfront.errorrate.5xx.percentage	%
cloudfront.errorrate.total.percentage	%

Cloudfront-Requests

Metric Name	Unit
cloudfront.requests.count	count

Cloudfront-Throughput

Metric Name	Unit
cloudfront.bytes.downloaded.bytes	bytes
cloudfront.bytes.uploaded.bytes	B

Prerequisites

AWS Configuration

Configure a service account (access/secret key combo) for which the following privileges have to be granted:

AWS Privilege	Description
cloudwatch:getMetricStatistics	Get metrics from the AWS/EC2 namespace on Cloudwatch.

Plugin dependencies

To interact with Amazon APIs, you can use either use the awscli binary provided by Amazon or paws, a Perl AWS SDK (recommended). You must install it on every poller expected to monitor AWS resources.

For now, it is not possible to use paws if you are using a proxy to reach AWS Cloudwatch APIs.

perl-Paws-installation

yum install perl-Paws

aws-cli-installation

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

Setup

Monitoring Pack

If the platform uses an online license, you can skip the package installation instruction below as it is not required to have the pack displayed within the Configuration > Plugin Packs > Manager menu. If the platform uses an offline license, install the package on the central server with the command corresponding to the operating system's package manager:

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8

dnf install centreon-pack-cloud-aws-cloudfront

CentOS 7

yum install centreon-pack-cloud-aws-cloudfront

Debian 11

apt install centreon-pack-cloud-aws-cloudfront

Whatever the license type (online or offline), install the Amazon CloudFront Pack through the Configuration > Plugin Packs > Manager menu.

Plugin

Since Centreon 22.04, you can benefit from the 'Automatic plugin installation' feature. When this feature is enabled, you can skip the installation part below.

You still have to manually install the plugin on the poller(s) when:

• Automatic plugin installation is turned off
• You want to run a discovery job from a poller that doesn't monitor any resource of this kind yet

More information in the Installing the plugin section.

Use the commands below according to your operating system's package manager:

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8

dnf install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Aws-Cloudfront-Api

CentOS 7

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Aws-Cloudfront-Api

Debian 11

apt install centreon-plugin-cloud-aws-cloudfront-api

Configuration

Host

• Log into Centreon and add a new host through Configuration > Hosts.
• Fill the Name, Alias & IP Address/DNS fields according to your CloudFront server settings.
• Apply the Cloud-Aws-CloudFront-custom template to the host.
• Once the template is applied, fill in the corresponding macros. Some macros are mandatory.

Mandatory	Macro	Description
	AWSACCESSKEY
	AWSASSUMEROLE
	AWSCUSTOMMODE	(Default: 'paws')
	AWSINSTANCEID
	AWSREGION
	AWSSECRETKEY
	EXTRAOPTIONS	Any extra option you may want to add to every command line (eg. a --verbose flag)
	PROXYURL

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?

Once the plugin is installed, log into your Centreon poller's CLI using the centreon-engine user account (su - centreon-engine) and test the plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_aws_cloudfront_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::aws::cloudfront::plugin \
    --mode=throughput \
    --custommode='paws' \
    --aws-secret-key='' \
    --aws-access-key='' \
    --aws-role-arn='' \
    --region='' \
    --id='' \
    --proxyurl='' \
    --filter-metric='' \
    --statistic='sum' \
    --timeframe='600' \
    --period='60' \
    --warning-bytes-uploaded='' \
    --critical-bytes-uploaded='' \
    --warning-bytes-downloaded='' \
    --critical-bytes-downloaded='' \
    --per-sec \
    --verbose \
    --use-new-perfdata

The expected command output is shown below:

OK: Bytes Downloaded Bytes Uploaded | 'cloudfront.bytes.downloaded.bytes'=9000;;;; 'cloudfront.bytes.uploaded.bytes'=9000B;;;; 

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_aws_cloudfront_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::aws::cloudfront::plugin \
    --mode=throughput \
    --help

All available modes can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_aws_cloudfront_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::aws::cloudfront::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find the troubleshooting documentation for Centreon Plugins typical issues.