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In this lab, you get hands-on experience with Amazon Managed Grafana, a service that helps you visualize and understand your AWS infrastructure metrics and logs. Instead of setting up and managing your own monitoring infrastructure, Amazon Managed Grafana provides a fully managed solution for your observability needs.
Objectives
- Develop a workspace in Amazon Managed Grafana.
- Configure SAML authentication for Amazon Managed Grafana.
- Include CloudWatch as a data source.
- Construct basic monitoring dashboards.
- Implement alarms with metric thresholds.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with cloud monitoring concepts and basic understanding of AWS CloudWatch metrics is recommended. You should be comfortable working with dashboards, configuring data sources, and basic Linux command-line operations. Expertise in performance monitoring and basic knowledge of visualization tools like Grafana help you follow along more easily.
Outline
Task 1: Review an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace
Task 2: Configure SAML authentication using Keycloak metadata URL
Task 3: Connect CloudWatch data sources to Grafana
Task 4: Understand and customize dashboard components
Task 5: Configure basic alerting for metric thresholds
