Meshcentral on an AWS EC2 t2.micro instance with 1.4k nodes

[TriStrac]

Might be a dumb question but. I would like to know why my instance just hangs up. It was running fine for 2 days. The connected devices reboots daily(half of it reboots at 2pm and half of it reboots at 3pm). It just suddenly hanged up after 2 days and now it is currently running fine (been 4 days) even when devices reboots at given time. might that be a cpu? ram? or network issue?

Educate me please, Thank you

[si458]

t2.micro is too small (1 core, 1gb ram)
Nodejs is memory hungry recently, and it's like crashing with OOM errors (check with dmesg)

You need a min of 2gb ram or better 4gb to be on the safe side

You can even use a t4g.small, which is the arm64 variety and is cheaper than the t2.small
Note tho u will need to copy ya data over as it's switching from Intel to Arm

[TriStrac]

hmm i see, one more question, if i plan around 10k devices, what specs would you recommend? Also is it a good idea to use mysql(aws rds) instead of mongodb(local setup)

[msaguindang]

I was planning to set up MeshCentral over to AWS as well. Can MeshCentral be deployed on AWS using Amazon DocumentDB as the backend, instead of self-hosting MongoDB on EC2 or using MongoDB Atlas?

[si458]

@TriStrac, it's a personal choice really of what backend u use for the database, u can even just run the DB in ur ec2 instance itself without using hosted mysql/mongodb

For example, I just use the built-in nedb database (or sqlite when im testing/fixing things), but I only look after 100 devices tops.

The reason everyone uses mongodb is because for the server peering feature to work (multiple meshcentral servers with load balancing etc) it REQUIRES mongodb because of its bulk feature

@msaguindang sadly, it doesn't support the dynamodb, but I can't see why it shouldn't work as it's just nosql based like mongodb or acebase!
If u wanted this feature/database support adding, please can u open up a feature request and I'll have a look in my own time as its very advanced to add in a whole new database engine!
Also, i would need to look for a sponsor of some form as its hours worth of work!