CPU Memory Utilization EC2 shared instance

Question

Hi Team,

we are facing CPU memory utilization alert intermediately, we have ec2 instance machine configuration 2 Core CPU and 8 GB RAM t3.large (Elastic Compute Cloud) Tenancy Shared, we have hosted Wordpress on Nginx we are receiving alert CPU utilization hit 80%. we need help how to resolve this issue

We have done some recommended changed in 
pm.max_children = 74
pm.start_servers = 6
pm.min_spare_servers = 6
pm.max_spare_servers = 8
pm.max_requests = 200

Answer

Hi,

You should first check in logs if traffic is normal. Your web site may be under attack and then you would have to protect against it with services like AWS Web Application Firewall. Se https://aws.amazon.com/waf/

But, first check the logs to see if you locate some problems there.

Best,

Didier

CPU Memory Utilization EC2 shared instance

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