Deriving operational intelligence from CloudWatch metrics
In Chapter 3, Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch, we discussed what CloudWatch metrics are and the different metrics that can be sent to CloudWatch. Also, we briefly explored the CloudWatch metrics explorer in Chapter 2, Overview of the Observability Landscape on AWS. Now let’s deep dive further into enhancing operational intelligence with CloudWatch metrics!
CloudWatch metrics explorer
CloudWatch metrics explorer is a flexible tag-based tool that filters, aggregates, and visualizes metrics by resource tags. Tag-based monitoring helps you categorize and compare application resources through the use of tags so that you can monitor them efficiently. CloudWatch metric explorer could be used for two different purposes:
- Monitoring: With tag-based monitoring, you create a dynamic application infrastructure health dashboard that automatically updates as you deploy new resources. Simply...
