monitoring load on AWS EC2

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Published on 2012-09-22T15:25:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/22 15:39 UTC
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I'm interesting in monitoring our EC2 instances to ensure we scale up when necessary. Right now we are monitoring idle CPU time as our metric.

We aren't measuring disk IO as we are not a very disk intensive application.

When running on our own hardware in a datacenter I also usually monitor "load" from the top command. My question is:
Does it make sense to monitor "load" on a shared env such as EC2? If so, how do you interpret the results?

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