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

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Case study on VPC analysis

You are the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in charge of the availability of all the applications of a media company. Your company runs a streaming service where users watch movies, TV series, and other video content. You have been receiving reports from the support team that customers are noticing a decline in the speed at which the movies are loading for watching and from time to time, the video does not stream smoothly. After checking the application, you notice that the application runs fine but the application connects to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and you need to check how traffic goes and returns from the application to Amazon Aurora. What actions would you take to investigate this?

Solution

The first step is to create a VPC flow log, because both the application, which will most likely will be in EC2, and the Aurora database are both running on VPCs. Analyze the logs collected in either CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3. Check the logs where the destination...