Summary
In this chapter, we deliberately created two practical operations to allow for the practical application of the concepts that have been spoken about. We introduced the idea of compute and the different AWS compute services and categories. We then went further and talked about the categories of monitoring – infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring.
Our focus in this chapter was more on infrastructure monitoring. We defined it and brought in the concept of IaaS, which is a model of cloud delivery. IaaS is focused more on virtual machines, which in AWS are called EC2 instances. We also talked about the key metrics in monitoring EC2 instances, such as the instance status check, CPU, memory, and disk metrics. After that, we looked at how CloudWatch monitors EC2 instances by default, and the loopholes that exist in default CloudWatch monitoring. We moved on and rectified this deficiency by using the new unified CloudWatch agent to collect more metrics, including...
