
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.