Monitoring Amazon GameLift Servers
If you're using Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ as a standalone feature with Amazon EC2, see Security in Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon GameLift Servers and your other AWS solutions. There are three primary uses for metrics with Amazon GameLift Servers: to monitor system health and set up alarms, to track game server performance and usage, and to manage capacity using manual or auto-scaling.
AWS provides the following monitoring tools to watch Amazon GameLift Servers, report when something is wrong, and take automatic actions when appropriate:
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Amazon GameLift Servers console – Use the graphical interface to manage your Amazon GameLift Servers resources and track game hosting activity.
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Amazon CloudWatch – You can monitor Amazon GameLift Servers metrics in real time, as well as metrics for other AWS resources and applications that you're running on AWS services. CloudWatch offers a suite of monitoring features, including tools to create customized dashboards and the ability to set alarms that notify or take action when a metric reaches a specified threshold.
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AWS CloudTrail – captures all API calls and related events made by or on behalf of your AWS account for Amazon GameLift Servers and other AWS services. Data is delivered as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. You can identify which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from which the calls were made, and when the calls occurred.
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Game session logs – You can output custom server messages for your game sessions to log files that are stored in Amazon S3.
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