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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

By : Ewere Diagboya
Book Image

Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

By: Ewere Diagboya

Overview of this book

CloudWatch is Amazon’s monitoring and observability service, designed to help those in the IT industry who are interested in optimizing resource utilization, visualizing operational health, and eventually increasing infrastructure performance. This book helps IT administrators, DevOps engineers, network engineers, and solutions architects to make optimum use of this cloud service for effective infrastructure productivity. You’ll start with a brief introduction to monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch and its core functionalities. Next, you’ll get to grips with CloudWatch features and their usability. Once the book has helped you develop your foundational knowledge of CloudWatch, you’ll be able to build your practical skills in monitoring and alerting various Amazon Web Services, such as EC2, EBS, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and ELB, with the help of real-world use cases. As you progress, you'll also learn how to use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics, define automated actions, and rapidly troubleshoot issues. Finally, the book will take you through monitoring AWS billing and costs. By the end of this book, you'll be capable of making decisions that enhance your infrastructure performance and maintain it at its peak.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch
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Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch

Configuring logging in Amazon Route 53

Route 53, like every other AWS service, has a lot of interesting services. There are many unique features in Amazon Route 53 that you might not find in other DNS services. One of them is the unique routing policies that were already mentioned in the Introduction to computer networking section where Route 53 was introduced.

In this section, we are looking at Route 53 in the context of monitoring. There are a couple of things that can be monitored in Route 53, from something as basic as monitoring the status of the domain registration to know whether it is complete to showing the status of a domain to know when it is going to expire. You can also send DNS query logs of the configured hosted zones to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for further analysis. The DNS query logs are supported on both private DNS- and public DNS-hosted zones.

Important Note

A hosted zone is a logical collection of DNS records that makes it easy to manage DNS records that...