Getting Started With Amazon CloudWatch

Name: Getting Started With Amazon CloudWatch
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Learn CloudWatch Essentials including custom metrics, log streams , alarms and dashboards

Created byVedvistara Technologies

Last updated 6/2018

English

What you'll learn

How administrators can use CloudWatch to monitor their AWS instance.

Course content

2 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 24m total length

What and How to Monitor in AWS3:25
Discover what to monitor in AWS using Amazon CloudWatch, and how continuous cloud monitoring helps alert on critical apps, study history, and plan for multi cloud dashboards.
What is Amazon CloudWatch?5:17
Explain how Amazon CloudWatch provides system-wide visibility, built-in and custom metrics, console access, dashboards, and alarms to monitor resources and optimize performance and cost.

Labs: Getting started with CloudWatch metrics for EC28:43
Discover how to monitor EC2 instances with basic and detailed CloudWatch metrics, install the unified CloudWatch agent for memory and disk metrics, and configure alarms and regional dashboards.
Labs: Enable EC2 detailed monitoring6:52
Enable EC2 detailed monitoring in CloudWatch, compare basic versus detailed metrics, view per-instance metrics in the console, and understand one-minute versus five-minute data and the associated costs.
Unified CloudWatch Agent Part 1: Installation Pre-requsites4:06
Install the unified CloudWatch agent across Linux and Windows via CLI or Systems Manager, configure custom metrics and logs, and monitor them in the CloudWatch console.
Labs: Unified CloudWatch Agent Part 2: Getting ready with IAM Roles4:13
Attach an IAM role and policies to EC2 instances to enable the unified CloudWatch agent to send metrics and logs to CloudWatch, and centralize configuration with a shared parameter file.
Labs: Unified CloudWatch Agent Part 3: Download and configure agent via CLI8:06
install the unified CloudWatch agent via CLI, configure metrics and logs with the wizard, select basic to advanced monitoring, and start the agent to collect memory swap data and logs.
Labs: Unified CloudWatch Agent Part 4: Monitoring metrics from CloudWatch5:44
Install and run the unified CloudWatch agent, validate the config, and monitor custom metrics in a namespace, exploring metrics by image ID and instance ID while reviewing logs.
Labs: SSM Agent for Unified agent- Getting ready6:38
Learn to install and start the SSM unified agent on Amazon Linux, configure IAM roles for Systems Manager, and install the CloudWatch agent to send logs and metrics.
Labs: SSM Agent for Unified agent- Download and Configure the agent4:17
Configure the unified SSM agent for Amazon CloudWatch by downloading, installing, and creating a parameter document to define metrics and logs collection, including host metrics and high resolution options.
Labs: SSM Agent for Unified agent- Staring the agent via Run command4:22
Learn how to start the Amazon CloudWatch Unified Agent on an SSM managed instance using a run command, validate via detailed monitoring, and manage with parameter store and custom documents.
Labs: Understanding CloudWatch Logs6:43
Explore CloudWatch logs by differentiating log groups and log streams, configure the unified agent, and create a metric filter to count invalid user attempts, enabling custom metrics and alarms.
Labs: CloudWatch Alarms and Metric Filter on logs5:39
learn to create CloudWatch alarms from log filters, track invalid user events with a custom metric, and send email notifications via an SNS topic.
Labs: CloudWatch Dashboards on Log Metrics4:39
Create a CloudWatch dashboard for a custom metric (invalid user), configure a line graph, set a one-minute period, and add context-rich widgets to monitor logs.
Summary: EC2 Monitoring5:23
Explore EC2 monitoring with CloudWatch, including basic and daily data points, unified agent, and custom metrics; configure logs, alarms, dashboards, and retention policies.

Requirements

AWS,EC2,RDS,EBS

Description

Amazon CloudWatch provides robust monitoring of your entire AWS infrastructure.

Administrators will be able learn to track a wide variety of helpful metrics using CloudWatch, including:

CPU usage
CPU latency
Network traffic
Available storage space
Memory
Custom performance counters

For EC2,EBS,RDS Instances, Understand the pricing options, what is "basic" , "detailed", "custom" metrics, AWS CloudWatch logs, Alarms, Events etc.

You will also look at accessing system and application logs, and create custom alarms to provide near real time notification when specific phrases or metrics appear in the logs, or when certain events take place, such as low disk space. How to create Dashboards to display graphs and statistics for both up to the minute and historical data.

Who this course is for:

Sysadmins,Devops, AWS Architect,RDS Admin

Getting Started With Amazon CloudWatch

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 9min

Monitoring Amazon EC213 lectures • 1hr 15min

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