how edmodo uses splunk for real-time tag-based reporting of aws billing and usage
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Don't pay up to 10% of your monthly AWS bill to report on AWS charges and Instance usage with products like Cloudability and Cloudcheckr. Get a Splunk! free license and the free app Splunk App for AWS usage tracking (http://apps.splunk.com/app/1274/). This presentation from splunk > live! San Francisco 2013 shows how Edmodo stays on top of Reserved Instance usage and uses AWS resource tag-based reporting to help teams manage their AWS usage,TRANSCRIPT
How Edmodo Uses Splunk App for AWS
Jack MurgiaNetOps [email protected]
28,000,000+TOTAL USERS AROUND THE WORLD
Edmodo is the largest social learning network
in the world
20M+ Registered Users
The Edmodo user base has grown REALLY FAST and so has our AWS usage.
Dec 09 Dec 12Dec 10 Dec 11
2,000,000
6,000,000
10,000,000
18,000,000
14,000,000
20M+ users
4.8M users
1.1M users225K users
Investors
• New Features
▸ Require new backend clusters
• More Employees
▸ Launch more development servers
• New Investors
▸ Want assurances we spend money wisely
100’s of production, development, reporting and
operations instances are managed on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute
Cloud.
20 employees across 5 teams can launch EC2 instances.
We tried lots of slow, pricey, hosted apps.None had what we REALLY Needed …
Real Time RI vs On-Demand UsageDo we have enough RI coverage? Are our RIs being used?
Getting Usage Data In front of TeamsMaking Real Time Usage Data Visible Encourages Action
Problem:
The default Splunk for AWS App configuration is based on billing “subaccounts”, which Edmodo does not use.
Edmodo uses tags to differentiate between cost centers.
Use These Tags: Product, Service, SpaceConfigurable Metadata Available for All AWS Resources
• Product
▸ designation is derived from the end user perspective. Where component resources serve overlapping Products, the Product designation is that which uses/requires a resource most or the resource's reason for existing.
• Service is the primary function of the resource. Examples are
▸ mysql
▸ apache
▸ active-directory
• Space a logical workplace designation. Examples are:
▸ Development
▸ Production
Edit the Splunk For AWS Scripts for Tagsget_instances.py and get_ops.py
Create Lookup Tables For The TagsSimple .csv files are referenced by dashboard view files
Personalize Your Dashboard ViewsThe Dashboard XML format is easy to customize
Drill Down Into Usage Data by TagsTeams Can Now Evaluate Usage For The Services They Manage
Drill Down Into Usage Data by TagsTeams Can Now Evaluate Usage For The Services They Manage
Drill Down Into Usage Data by TagsTeams Can Now Evaluate Usage For The Services They Manage
Download Tag Customizations
http://public.edim.com.s3.amazonaws.com/splunk-aws-app-for-tags.tgz