Summarizing everything learned so far
In this section, we shall do a recap of everything we have learned in the last 10 chapters of this book, going from one chapter to another:
- Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring, was an introduction to monitoring. We looked at monitoring from its first principles and explained how it has evolved over time and taken in software and cloud monitoring. Then we moved on to the types of monitoring and the importance of monitoring in a system. Then, we introduced Amazon CloudWatch and talked about how the well-architected AWS framework is helpful as a guide in performing monitoring more efficiently in AWS.
- For Chapter 2, CloudWatch Events and Alarms, we started going deeper into more monitoring concepts, such as CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge, comparing them and showing the differences. We also looked at the components of an event and moved straight on to look at what a CloudWatch alarm is and how to create one.
- Chapter 3, CloudWatch...