You're reading from AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM

4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure

5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2

7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure

8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing

9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis

14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

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Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service used to monitor your resources and applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). CloudWatch can monitor things such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, and Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues.

To get a complete list of services that publish CloudWatch metrics, please refer to the following link:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/aws-services-cloudwatch-metrics.html

The chapter will start by setting up CloudWatch monitoring. We will further examine how to push custom metrics—such as swap, network, and disk space utilization—to CloudWatch. Then, we will look at SNS and how it's tightly coupled with CloudWatch to provide you with a seamless notification experience. We will further tighten our monitoring by looking at how to use CloudWatch Events...