edx autoscaling groups

[Ardiea]

Revisit the Autoscaling for edx. Previously, when autoscaling was configured, edx would go into a death sprial of up/down/up/down over and over. Still need autoscaling but it needs to be smarter than the previous implementation.

Sar has load testing code somewhere that we can use to give this a nudge and hopefully trigger the autoscaling.

[blarghmatey]

Our first attempt at autoscaling for edx-platform instances was based on metrics collected from the load balancer. This works in that the rules were triggered to launch new instances, but the ASG got into a state where the uptime was flapping due to fluctuations in the number of instances and their overall readiness.

• [ ] Revisit the existing rules and test their behavior under load
• [ ] Identify whether we need additional or different signals for triggering scale up/scale down policies
• [ ] If we need additional signals then we need to work on adding OpenTelemetry support to the edx-django-utils package and routing those metrics to cloudwatch

[blarghmatey]

@shaidar when you get a minute can you add any context about the failure mode that we ran into with MITx Online when the ASG scale-up policy triggered?

[blarghmatey]

Closing as no longer relevant.