You're reading from AWS Observability Handbook Monitor, trace, and alert your cloud applications with AWS' myriad observability tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616710

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Fabio Oliveira

Phani Kumar Lingamallu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS

2. Chapter 1: Observability 101 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Overview of the Observability Landscape on AWS

4. Chapter 3: Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch

5. Chapter 4: Implementing Distributed Tracing Using AWS X-Ray

6. Part 2: Automated and Machine Learning-Powered Observability on AWS

7. Chapter 5: Insights into Operational Data with CloudWatch

8. Chapter 6: Observability for Containerized Applications on AWS

9. Chapter 7: Observability for Serverless Applications on AWS

10. Chapter 8: End User Experience Monitoring on AWS

11. Part 3: Open Source Managed Services on AWS

12. Chapter 9: Collecting Metrics and Traces Using OpenTelemetry

13. Chapter 10: Deploying and Configuring an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

14. Chapter 11: Deploying the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Stack Using Amazon OpenSearch Service

15. Part 4: Scaled Observability and Beyond

16. Chapter 12: Augmenting the Human Operator with Amazon DevOps Guru

17. Chapter 13: Observability Best Practices at Scale

18. Chapter 14: Be Well-Architected for Operational Excellence

19. Chapter 15: The Role of Observability in the Cloud Adoption Framework

20. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the basics of CloudWatch metrics and logs. We learned about the default AWS vended metrics provided by AWS for EC2 instances and have explored on how to gather custom metrics by using CloudWatch agent. We have learned on how to install the CloudWatch agent manually on Windows EC2 instance to gather additional guest OS-level customer metrics and logs and how to automate the CloudWatch agent installation using AWS Systems Manager.

Further, we explored alarms and different types of alarming options available in AWS CloudWatch and how to create alarms for the metrics gathered, and also how to avoid alarm fatigue using composite alarms.

Further, we went ahead and visualized the data generated from CloudWatch using a custom dashboard and utilized widgets to display different types of data, such as AWS vended metrics, custom metrics, logs, and alarms on a single dashboard.

Furthermore, we discussed the importance of events and the requirements...

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