A crucial aspect of running any application is having the ability to look into its performance and operating characteristics. Implementing monitoring is a crucial step that helps us understand the application's behavior and operational performance patterns. Only when we understand how our application performs will we be able to improve the application and deliver a better service to the end users. I like to say to my clients: Running an application without motioning is like flying an airplane with sunglasses on... at night.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch
- How CloudWatch works
- Elements of CloudWatch
- Metrics and alarms
- CloudWatch dashboards
- Monitoring EC2
- Monitoring RDS
- Monitoring ElastiCache
- SQS monitoring and logging
- Monitoring SNS with CloudWatch
- Monitoring Elastic Beanstalk...