Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch

Discover how to use CloudWatch to monitor all of your cloud applications in one place. Learn how to manage your services, track performance, create alerts, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction

Debugging and monitoring using AWS CloudWatch
What should you know

1. Monitoring Services Using CloudWatch Metrics

What is CloudWatch?
CloudWatch metrics
Analyze CloudWatch metrics
Using custom metrics
Challenge: Push custom metrics to CloudWatch
Solution: Push custom metrics to CloudWatch

2. Logging Using CloudWatch

Logs on CloudWatch
Query logs for insights
Create log metrics
Using the CloudWatch agent
Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows
Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Linux
Challenge: Create custom CloudWatch metrics
Solution: Create custom CloudWatch metrics

3. Notifying and Automating Using CloudWatch Alarms

CloudWatch alarm capabilities
Getting notified on metrics
Autoscaling using alarms
Challenge: Create CloudWatch alarms
Solution: Create CloudWatch alarms

4. Interconnecting Services Using CloudWatch Events

Events overview
Responding to events
Scheduling events
Managing event bus permissions
Challenge: Trigger Lambda functions using events
Solution: Trigger Lambda functions using events

5. Monitoring the Web Using CloudWatch Synthetics

Discovering CloudWatch Synthetics capabilities
Monitoring application heartbeat using Synthetics canaries
Monitoring API endpoints using Synthetics canaries
Using alarms with Synthetics canaries to get notified about application issues
Challenge: Monitor APIs and set alarms using CloudWatch canaries
Solution: Monitor APIs and set alarms using CloudWatch canaries

6. Monitoring Application Health Using ServiceLens

ServiceLens overview
Launching an X-ray instrumented demo application
Analyzing application health data
Challenge: Set up an X-ray instrumented application and monitor it via ServiceLens
Solution: Set up an X-ray instrumented application and monitor it via ServiceLens

Conclusion