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Monitoring GitLab

Monitoring GitLab

- (Narrator) Now that we have a GitLab server up and running and we can put code to it, what kind of things do we need to do to keep it running? We are running our GitLab server as an EC2 instance, so I would recommend that you place some CloudWatch monitors on the instance itself just to make sure the instance hardware is healthy and running. In the EC2 dashboard, if you click under GitLab instance and then click on this "Status Checks" tab, you can click on "Create Status Check Alarm". You can select an existing SNS topic or you can create a new one and put your email address here. This will send you an email when the instance is failing one of its status checks. These alarms will let you know if the hardware underneath the instance itself has failed or if the instance itself has completely crashed and is no longer responding. You can even click the "Take the action" button, and you can even have CloudWatch try and perform an action like "Recover this instance" which will…

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