App Management

Amorphic App Management is a platform that provides capabilities for managing and monitoring applications. The specific capabilities are:

• System Settings
  • Cloudwatch Logs
  • Whitelisted Domains
  • Whitelisted Proxy Domains
  • S3 Object Versioning Management
  • Application Tags
  • Whitelisted IPs
  • Notebook Instances
• Custom Notifications

Cloudwatch Logs

With Cloudwatch log feature, Admins can set retention period(in days) for the generated logs. If the retention period is specified as X days, it means that all logs older than X days from the time of it's creation will be deleted eventually. In this manner, Admins can try to reduce the cost of storage for these logs. To learn more, read AWS Cloudwatch logs

Note

This feature can only be used by Admins. Currently, retention policy is being applied on almost all logs generated through Amorphic services except a few like DMS Tasks, ETL Glue Jobs, etc.

By default no retention policy is set. Minimum retention period(days) allowed is 60.

The given below API is used to set/retrieve retention period for logs:-

• /logs-retention-period
  • GET -- Returns retention period for the logs. If N/A is returned, that means logs will be retained forever.
  • PUT -- Set the new retention period of logs to X days as provided by user. Please note that it takes around 24 hours for the retention period to get updated.

API Process (Request and Payload Details)

1. To retrieve retention period of logs

   /logs-retention-period & GET method

   Body/QueryParameter (NOT Required)

2. To set/update retention period of logs

   /logs-retention-period?period={days} & PUT method

   QueryParameter (Required): period Body (NOT Required)

Note

Please replace variables enclosed in {} with the corresponding values (Ex: days should be replaced with a valid number. Allowed values for retention period are - ['N/A', '60', '90', '120', '150', '180', '365', '400', '545', '731', '1827', '2192','2557', '2922', '3288', '3653'] N/A is equivalent to 0 days. That means logs will be stored forever.

Whitelisted Domains

A Whitelisted Domains feature is provided to control access to specific resources or applications. This feature allows the admin or users to edit a list of domains that are approved or authorized for access to a system or network. So, only users from specific domains are allowed to register for the application, while blocking access from all other domains.

For example, you might specify that only employees at your company (with email addresses ending in "@yourcompany.com") can access the application, and block access from all other domains. This ensures that only authorized users can access the application and protect your data.

Whitelisted Proxy Domains

Admin can view and update the whitelisted Proxy Domains from the Amorphic interface, restricting network access exclusively to specified domains. This feature empowers users with precise control over domain access.

Note

Modifying the whitelisted proxy domains will cause the app to be unavailable for sometime(upto 1 minute). Please refresh the page after 1 minute to get the list of updated proxy domains.

S3 Object Versioning Management

With S3 Object Versioning Management feature, Admins can enable automated deletion of S3 objects(non-current version) based on usage, providing cost-effective storage management. By default, all non-current/previous versions of objects stored in S3 buckets will be retained indefinitely, which means RetainForever is set to yes. By setting the RetainForever flag as no, administrators can specify a retention period (in days) for previous object versions in all S3 buckets created by the Amorphic application. This allows administrators to control the lifecycle of these versions and enforce the specified retention period across all buckets. If a retention period of X days is specified, any non-current/previous object versions that are older than X days from the time they became non-current will eventually be deleted. The minimum and maximum allowed retention periods are 1 and 3650 days, respectively.

To enhance the troubleshooting process for the S3 Object Versioning Management feature, an email notification can be configured to send a detailed report to all `subscribed(email alerts)`` administrators. This report will provide comprehensive information about each S3 bucket, enabling admins to quickly identify and address any issues or anomalies. The email notification should include the following details in a tabular format:
Resource Type: The type of AWS resource for which the report is generated.
Resource Name: The name of the S3 bucket for which the report is generated.
Message: Success/Error message with appropriate retention period details for troubleshooting. In case of any error for any bucket, admin needs to retry updating the retention period.

To learn more, read AWS S3 Delete Object Versions

Note

Please note that this feature only applies when "Bucket Versioning" is enabled within the application, and it can only be utilized by administrators.

Application Tags

Application tags feature enables Admins to view and update custom tags that are applied across Amorphic-created AWS resources. These tags will be used to group and identify the AWS resources created by the application, which can be helpful for generating monitoring and billing information.

Note

Please note that application tags should be unique(Case Insensitive).

Whitelisted IPs

Admins can view and update the whitelisted IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the Amorphic interface, granting network access only to specific IP addresses. This feature provides the ability to control access.

Notebook Instances

Admins can now make changes to the list of permitted Notebook Instance Types. With every fresh deployment, the Amorphic set of default instances are filled up automatically. This can be modified by admins to better suit their production environment.

Custom Notifications

Using the Custom Notifications feature, users can access the list of custom emails utilized within Amorphic. These emails are linked to multiple amorphic resources to receive alerts regarding various actions taken at resource level. The user will have the capability to observe all the resources to which the custom email is connected. Additionally, the user has the option to remove the custom email from the system.