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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

Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch

The previous chapter focused on monitoring some AWS compute resources such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Beanstalk. We also spent some time setting up the unified CloudWatch Agent in an EC2 instance to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. We now understand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), which are different methods of cloud delivery. We also looked at the metrics that make up the IaaS cloud setup, and then for PaaS, we set up Elastic Beanstalk and described how monitoring works in Elastic Beanstalk applications.

Let's understand what objectives we will cover by the end of this chapter. Since containers are pretty different from virtual machines (VMs), it means that a lot of things are going to be different: deploying, scaling, configuration, and most importantly, monitoring. We will talk about the AWS services used for container orchestration and management, then...