Here are the best practices that we can follow in CloudWatch:
- Monitor AWS resources and hosted applications using CloudWatch. This helps to identify performance bottlenecks and to optimize resource costs.
- Enable billing alerts for an AWS account. This helps you to monitor the monthly costs and keep tabs on them.
- For a better understanding of the CloudWatch visualization, toggle the metrics between UTC and local time.
- By default, CloudWatch provides basic monitoring for resources and records metrics at 5-minute intervals. It is recommended that you use detailed monitoring for critical resources, which records metrics at 1-minute intervals.
- Enable custom metrics where required. For example, you can enable memory monitoring on EC2 instances, which is not part of the default EC2 metrics. Create custom metrics for monitoring application behavior and link...
