Unusual traffic on my Elastic Beanstalk application. NetworkIn, NetworkOut both spike once to twice a day at random times. Sometimes it crashes my load balancer and I have to go in and manually kill the SEVERE instance to get it to fire another one up.
I have downloaded the logs and looked at nginx.access. The activity looks normal.
I have looked for patterns... Time-wise there is not much of a pattern. Can happen between 8 and 10am, or later in the afternoon, but only during working hours ususally (no spikes at 2am for example).
I've considered someone running an automated job slamming our APIs, but did not see that in ngix.access log.
I've considered someone trying to upload a large file, but wouldn't know how to see that in a log.
I am a Software Engineer that has somewhat inherited the role of AWS admin until we find more help so my experience is limited.
So the question: What else could I be looking at in AWS to try an identify the reason for these spikes?
Any advice that can be offered would be helpful. Thanks.
