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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

By : Ewere Diagboya
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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring, covers the definition, history, and basic concepts of monitoring and the monitoring of systems, and an introduction to Amazon CloudWatch.

Chapter 2, CloudWatch Events and Alarms, explains how CloudWatch events can be configured for different scenarios and how to configure alarms.

Chapter 3, CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards, looks at the meaning of logs and metrics and how to create metrics from logs and a dashboard from metrics.

Chapter 4, Monitoring AWS Compute Services, introduces AWS compute services and how they integrate with Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring.

Chapter 5, Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch, explains concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and how Container Insights helps in monitoring containers.

Chapter 6, Performance Insights for Database Services, covers the concepts of different types of databases, AWS database services, and configuring monitoring on these services.

Chapter 7, Monitoring Serverless Applications, introduces the concept of the server and using Lambda Insights to get a clearer understanding of Lambda applications.

Chapter 8, Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services, explains basic big data concepts and AWS big data services and the monitoring of these services.

Chapter 9, Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch, introduces AWS storage services, the different types, and their functionalities, and how to monitor on them.

Chapter 10, Monitoring Network Services, introduces the fundamentals of computer networking, networking in AWS services, and their integration with CloudWatch.

Chapter 11, Best Practices and Conclusion, mentions some best practices with respect to monitoring and gives a summary for all the chapters.