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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch: Effectively optimize resource allocation, detect anomalies, and set automated actions on AWS

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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring

Monitoring is a broad topic that covers different human endeavors. Ignorance of monitoring ideals and concepts can adversely affect how to handle and manage engineering and computer systems effectively. Systems are usually not 100% efficient, and there are times they break down or do not work optimally as intended. The only way to understand and predict a breakdown is by monitoring the system. When a system is monitored, its pattern of behavior can be better understood, and this can help to predict a failure before it eventually happens. A proper maintenance process based on what has been monitored can be used to minimize failure of the system.

To help start the journey into monitoring, we will begin with understanding what monitoring is and the building blocks of every monitoring setup and infrastructure. We will explore the techniques used to monitor any infrastructure and for which scenario both of them are designed, and the relationship that exists between different monitoring components. Then, I will explain the importance of monitoring using real-life scenarios to help to emphasize and better your understanding of each importance mentioned. To crown it all, I will explain how the AWS Well-Architected framework portrays monitoring as a very important aspect of your AWS workload, using the principles of the pillar to galvanize what we have already talked about in terms of importance and how it makes the architecture of any Cloud workload complete. The purpose of this chapter is to help you understand what monitoring is, provide a little historical background of monitoring, explain the different ways software applications can be monitored, and shed light on the importance of monitoring and software applications.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Introducing monitoring
  • Discovering the types of monitoring
  • Understanding the components of monitoring
  • Getting to know Amazon CloudWatch
  • Introducing the relationship between Amazon CloudWatch and Well-Architected
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  • Become well-versed with monitoring fundamentals such as understanding the building blocks and architecture of networking
  • Learn how to ensure your applications never face downtime
  • Get hands-on with observing serverless applications and services

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CloudWatch is Amazon’s monitoring and observability service, designed to help those in the IT industry who are interested in optimizing resource utilization, visualizing operational health, and eventually increasing infrastructure performance. This book helps IT administrators, DevOps engineers, network engineers, and solutions architects to make optimum use of this cloud service for effective infrastructure productivity. You’ll start with a brief introduction to monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch and its core functionalities. Next, you’ll get to grips with CloudWatch features and their usability. Once the book has helped you develop your foundational knowledge of CloudWatch, you’ll be able to build your practical skills in monitoring and alerting various Amazon Web Services, such as EC2, EBS, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and ELB, with the help of real-world use cases. As you progress, you'll also learn how to use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics, define automated actions, and rapidly troubleshoot issues. Finally, the book will take you through monitoring AWS billing and costs. By the end of this book, you'll be capable of making decisions that enhance your infrastructure performance and maintain it at its peak.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, or any IT individual with hands-on intermediate-level experience in networking, cloud computing, and infrastructure management. A beginner-level understanding of AWS and application monitoring will also be helpful to grasp the concepts covered in the book more effectively.

What you will learn

  • Understand the meaning and importance of monitoring
  • Explore the components of a basic monitoring system
  • Understand the functions of CloudWatch Logs, metrics, and dashboards
  • Discover how to collect different types of metrics from EC2
  • Configure Amazon EventBridge to integrate with different AWS services
  • Get up to speed with the fundamentals of observability and the AWS services used for observability
  • Find out about the role Infrastructure As Code (IaC) plays in monitoring
  • Gain insights into how billing works using different CloudWatch features
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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: CloudWatch Events and Alarms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Monitoring AWS Compute Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Performance Insights for Database Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Monitoring Network Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Best Practices and Conclusion Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Anslem John Jul 21, 2021
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If you have critical infrastructure in AWS then it has to be monitored no question about that. This book will guide you to deploying your tools to effectively monitor your AWS infrastructure. With examples given and how to set up your metrics you can't go wrong. Get this book!!
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This is a great book to learn all about AWS CloudWatch with Examples. it covers from basics to advanced concepts of CloudWatch, how to create logging,event,Dashboard,Alarms,Use ContainerInsight with Cloudwatch in very details.Well formatted and organised contains. easy to ready. Highly recommend.
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Walter Lee Jun 05, 2021
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This is a good book for System Administrators/SREs to set up useful and important monitoring/alarms/dashboards of AWS services. It has 2 sections. Section 1 is more an introduction to AWS CloudWatch, Events, Alarms, Logs, Metrics and Dashboards. Section 2 is the centerpiece of this book with many step by step guide to set up useful monitoring for different AWS services, e.g. EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, DB services (RDS, Dynamo, ElastiCache, Document DB, RedShift), Serverless (Lambda, API Gateways, SQS, SNS, Steps, tracing with X-Ray), Big Data (ETL, Kinesis, CloudTrail, Glue), Storages (EBS, S3, EFS, FSx), Networking (VPC, flowlogs, AppMesh, CloudMap, Route 53). The last Chapter is a summary of best practices.It shows important metrics to be monitored for different services, e.g. Average Queue Length (AQL) for EBS volume.
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Monitoring is key today for all information systems. Lots of systems require 24 by 7 up time. This book is extremely helpful and well written to provide details on how AWS monitoring tools work. A must read for anyone working in the Amazon Cloud.
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Abayomi A. Jul 27, 2021
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As an AWS Certified Solution Architect, I can say that this book is an awesome book for Systems Architects. This (book) material will better teach and assist you to set up your tools to expertly keep an eye on your infrastructure. This book should be a companion to all cloud engineers and aspiring cloud engineers.
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