Amazon CloudWatch essentials
CloudWatch stands out not just as a mere tool but as the heartbeat of your cloud operations. You can consider it as similar to the nervous system of a living organism, capturing every fluctuation, every pulse, and every whisper of your cloud resources. By collecting these granular details, CloudWatch doesn’t just tell us what’s happening—it unfolds the entire story behind every metric, log, and alarm.
In this section specifically, we will embark on a journey to unveil the essentials of Amazon CloudWatch. We will begin our journey by exploring metrics, alarms, and events, which stand as the bedrock of monitoring. Moving forward, we will dive into understanding custom metrics and the monitoring of EC2 instances, CloudWatch dashboards, and visualization, as well as CloudWatch logs and log insights.
Metrics, alarms, and events
Metrics, alarms, and events are the silent narrators of your system stories. Imagine having a pulse on...