Summary

Phew! This has been a long but interesting and worthwhile chapter indeed! Let's quickly recap the things we learnt so far!

First up, we started off with a quick introduction to Amazon CloudWatch, its features, concepts, and terminologies. Next, we went ahead and created our very first alarm in the form of an estimate billing alarm. We then even saw how to create alarms for monitoring the performance of our EC2 instances, as well as how to perform certain actions when the alarms are triggered. Toward the end of this chapter, we looked at CloudWatch Logs and how you can leverage it to monitor your web server's logs. And, finally, we finished the chapter with a brief look at custom metrics and metric filters and how we can use them effectively to monitor our instances and applications.

In the next chapter, we will be taking CloudWatch and monitoring to the next level by exploring the awesome concept of auto scaling, so stay tuned!