how do you guys often monitor the status of your vm on EC2?
I am currently using CloudWatch and it seems that it can only give me CPU/network/io related stuff.
What's your recommendation of server monitoring tool on AWS EC2? What are the pros and cons?
CloudWatch is far enough for testing the health of EC2 instance.
If you need something more detailed inside the EC2, you could have a look at monit.
Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
