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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

Monitoring events in ElastiCache

Caching is an important aspect of any application. It helps improve the performance of the application by offloading certain database I/O operations to the cached database's storage. Just as we need to understand what is going on with the main database, we must also understand what is going on with our cache from time to time. We need to be able to carry out both proactive and reactive monitoring on our cache database engine. Our focus will be on the Redis option for ElastiCache.

Important note

I/O is an acronym for Input/Output. It is used to measure the communication of the input and output operations in a computer. I/O is primarily used in disks, where I means the Input of information and O means the Output of information. There is a metric called IOps, which means Input/Output per second. It is used to measure the speed at which data is written to a hard disk and received from the hard disk.

Just like other managed services, AWS handles...