You're reading from Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Effectively optimize resource allocation, detect anomalies, and set automated actions on AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566057

Length 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Amazon CloudWatch

Concepts

Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Ewere Diagboya

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring FREE CHAPTER

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

Understanding CloudWatch metrics on Amazon S3

In the introductory section of this chapter, we talked about storage devices. One of the storage devices mentioned was Amazon S3. We discussed that Amazon S3 is an object store that can store almost any number of files uploaded to it. Amazon S3 is exceptionally durable, with an SLA of 99.999999999%. This number, according to the uptime.is SLA calculator, means that there is zero downtime daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and even yearly. In this kind of service, you might not be monitoring for the availability of your files since AWS has promised that zero downtime will occur.

In S3, you might not find the fancy metrics and dashboard that are used to analyze and understand the performance of the system. Instead, S3 offers a more unique way of observing what needs to be monitored and measured. For every S3 bucket, there is a Metrics tab that shows just two graphs: