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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

You're reading from   AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond Pass the DOP-C01 exam and prepare for the real world using case studies and real-life examples

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Published in Nov 2021
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ISBN-13 9781801074452
Length 638 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (31) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Amazon Web Service Pillars FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Fundamental AWS Services 4. Chapter 3: Identity and Access Management and Working with Secrets in AWS 5. Chapter 4: Amazon S3 Blob Storage 6. Chapter 5: Amazon DynamoDB 7. Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
8. Chapter 6: Understanding CI/CD and the SDLC 9. Chapter 7: Using CloudFormation Templates to Deploy Workloads 10. Chapter 8: Creating Workloads with CodeCommit and CodeBuild 11. Chapter 9: Deploying Workloads with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline 12. Chapter 10: Using AWS Opsworks to Manage and Deploy your Application Stack 13. Chapter 11: Using Elastic Beanstalk to Deploy your Application 14. Chapter 12: Lambda Deployments and Versioning 15. Chapter 13: Blue Green Deployments 16. Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
17. Chapter 14: CloudWatch and X-Ray's Role in DevOps 18. Chapter 15: CloudWatch Metrics and Amazon EventBridge 19. Chapter 16: Various Logs Generated (VPC Flow Logs, Load Balancer Logs, CloudTrail Logs) 20. Chapter 17: Advanced and Enterprise Logging Scenarios 21. Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
22. Chapter 18: Autoscaling and Lifecycle Hooks 23. Chapter 19: Protecting Data in Flight and at Rest 24. Chapter 20: Enforcing Standards and Compliance with System Manger's Role and AWS Config 25. Chapter 21: Using Amazon Inspector to Check your Environment 26. Chapter 22: Other Policy and Standards Services to Know 27. Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks
28. Chapter 23: Overview of the DevOps Professional Certification Test 29. Chapter 24: Practice Exam 1 30. Other Books You May Enjoy

Monitoring OpsWorks

You can monitor your AWS OpsWorks stacks in a number of ways:

  • Using Amazon CloudWatch
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch Events
  • Using Amazon CloudTrail

With Amazon CloudWatch, there are 13 custom metrics provided for detailed monitoring of each of the instances in the stack. There is also a custom monitoring page created in OpsWorks that summarizes the data and makes it easy to understand these metrics. If you are running Windows instances, the monitoring page will not display the metrics for those Windows instances. The metrics are displayed for the entire stack, but you can also concentrate on a particular layer or a particular instance.

If you still have the deployment running from the previous exercise, you can click the Monitoring menu icon to be taken to the dashboard. This can give you quick insights into the state of your application:

Figure 10.17 – Monitoring dashboard in...

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