CloudWatch Overview

Amazon CloudWatch is the de facto AWS native service used to help you monitor your services and resources. While other services may help with monitoring specific tasks such as networking or security, CloudWatch considers the services holistically. The primary function of CloudWatch is to help you monitor and track the performance of your AWS workloads, services, and applications.

When working with your systems, especially during peak periods of traffic, you never know what to expect. You need to have visibility into your overall system along with individual components in case the response times start to become sluggish or unresponsive. Applications, and correspondingly their requirements, including security requirements, are becoming more complex. The number of different platforms being used is constantly evolving, and logs are constantly being generated from different sources. Through all of this, you need a way to keep an eye on your systems. The preceding...