Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch

After whetting your appetite in the first part with the meaning of monitoring and the various pillars that make up monitoring, we shift gears and move faster to see real-life applications of monitoring using CloudWatch as our monitoring tool. Every AWS service can be monitored and tracked and understanding can be drawn from the behavior of the infrastructure. Every service is unique in its own way. A better understanding of its metrics will help improve the availability of the system, improve system performance, and cut down unnecessary costs in other applications.

The following chapters are included in this section:

• Chapter 4, Monitoring AWS Compute Services
• Chapter 5, Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch
• Chapter 6, Performance Insights for Database Services
• Chapter 7, Monitoring Serverless Applications
• Chapter 8, Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services
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