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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

You're reading from Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566057

Pages 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Ewere Diagboya

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring

3. Chapter 2: CloudWatch Events and Alarms

4. Chapter 3: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards

5. Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch

6. Chapter 4: Monitoring AWS Compute Services

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch

8. Chapter 6: Performance Insights for Database Services

9. Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications

10. Chapter 8: Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services

11. Chapter 9: Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch

12. Chapter 10: Monitoring Network Services

13. Chapter 11: Best Practices and Conclusion

14. Assessments

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring CloudWatch Container Insights

CloudWatch has an intelligent way of collecting container metrics using a feature called Container Insights. To be able to use Container Insights, it needs to be enabled from CloudWatch. But first, let's understand why we need to activate Container Insights.

Why activate Container Insights?

There are a lot of metrics that can be collected in any application or infrastructure setup. But you do not want to flood your CloudWatch with both necessary and unnecessary metrics. So, using Container Insights will narrow down the metrics collected from ECS to more specific and useful metrics for your ECS deployments. It also serves as a turn-key solution for metrics aggregation. Instead of looking for which monitoring tool will be used to collect logs from the running container and sifting through the logs to find the most important metrics needed for your container running in ECS, activating Container Insights on ECS will help in collecting...

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Authors (1)

Ewere Diagboya

Ewere Diagboya is a technology lover at heart who started his journey into technology back in 2003. At an early age, he finished mastering Windows 98 applications. He learned coding in Visual Basic 6.0 with the help of his brother. Afterward, he mastered other programming languages, building both desktop and web applications. Ewere moved into cloud computing and DevOps and has been practicing, training, and mentoring for close to a decade now. He worked closely with other like minds to start the AWS User Group in Nigeria and fostered DevOps Nigeria Group vibrancy. In 2020 he was awarded the first AWS Community Hero award in Africa. Ewere also runs a training institute and has a blog on Medium where he writes about cloud computing and DevOps.

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