[qaq]

This is "not that different" from getting a very high load spike do you guys not have some autoscaling setup?

[marcog1]

We do, but it didn't help given the cause of the high cpu was our logging infrastructure (Amazon Kinesis) being overloaded by the webservers.

[matt_wulfeck]

Does kinesis not support UDP sylog style logging, some of these old technologies had the right idea: if your sending too much data, drop the packets on the floor instead of falling over!

[babo]

Autoscaling as not necessary driven by CPU load.

[qaq]

true but by default it is

[themartorana]

You'd think that would be at least one metric...