Topic

CloudWatch

A collection of 2 issues

Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage

Mastodon appears to be a really good copy machine, and makes cache copies of all kinds of image files, videos, and avatars based on the accounts you follow.

Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server

In the end, I wound up with this nice looking custom dashboard in CloudWatch and a few alarms set up to monitor the metrics I decided were critical.