In the following sections, we'll dive deeper into the details of AWS CloudWatch.
AWS CloudWatch
Concepts
In the following sections, we'll take a at the building blocks of CloudWatch.
Metrics
AWS CloudWatch works on the concept of metrics. A metric is a measurable value of an infrastructure component, sampled over a period of time. AWS provides predefined metrics, but you can choose to publish your own custom metrics.
For example, CPU utilization is a metric of an EC2 instance. The number of invocations is a metric of a Lambda function. These are predefined metrics...