Cloud solutions

Every cloud provider out there is fully aware of the need for proper monitoring and distributed logging, so they will have built their own native solutions. Sometimes it’s worth using native solutions, but not always. Let’s take a look at the major cloud providers and what they have to offer.

One of the first services available in AWS was CloudWatch. At first, it would just collect all kinds of metrics and allow you to create dashboards to better understand system performance and easily spot issues or simply a denial-of-service attack, which in turn allowed you to quickly react to them.

Another function of CloudWatch is alerting, but it’s limited to sending out emails using another Amazon service, Simple Email Service. Alerting and metrics could also trigger other actions inside your AWS account, such as scaling up or down the number of running instances.

As of the time of writing this book, CloudWatch can do so much more than monitoring...