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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 3: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards

In the previous chapter, we talked about Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon EventBridge, and CloudWatch alarms. We defined the meaning of CloudWatch Events and talked about the components that make up a CloudWatch event. We further explained the importance of CloudWatch Events and gave real-life scenarios. We created an example of an automated start and stop of an EC2 instance based on a specific time of day. This was done using the scheduled expression feature in Amazon CloudWatch Events. We explained CloudWatch alarms and why it is important to integrate an alarm system into your monitoring infrastructure. Then, we implemented a basic alarm solution that sends an email when the estimated AWS bill gets to a specific amount for that particular month.

These scenarios used for CloudWatch Events and CloudWatch alarms are the criteria for understanding the basics. In subsequent chapters, the alarms will be tied to more specific and...