CloudWatch Flashcards
Monitoring and observability platform that was designed to give us insight into our AWS architecture
CloudWatch
Allows customers the ability to monitor multiple levels of our applications and identify potential issues
CloudWatch
Metrics that you get out of the box
System Metrics
By installing the CloudWatch agent you can get information from inside your EC2 instances
Application Metrics
Alerts you when something goes wrong based on certain metrics
Alarms
Is CPU Utilization a custom or default metric
Default
Is Network Throughput a custom or default metric
Default
Is EC2 memory Utilization a custom or default metric
Custom
Is EBS storage capacity a custom or default metric
Custom
Required to be installed on hosts to receive custom metrics
CloudWatch Agent
Tool that allows you to monitor, store, and access log files from a variety of different sources
CloudWatch Log
Gives you the ability to query your logs to look for potential issues or data that is relevant to you.
CloudWatch Logs
Enables users to collect and monitor system and application metrics on their AWS instances, and on-premise servers
CloudWatch Logs
Record of what happened, contains a timestamp and the data
Log Event
A collection of log events from the same source
Log Stream
A collection of log streams
Log Group
Used to extract and analyze specific log events or data from your log streams and your log groups
Filter Patterns
Used to query and analyze your log data using SQL-like query languages
CloudWatch Logs Insights
Used to identify irregular data and alert customers to proactively respond to critical events
CloudWatch Alarms
Service allowing secure data visualizations for instantly querying, correlation, and visualizing your operational metrics, logs and traces
Amazon Managed Grafana
Used for visualizing EKS, ECS, or your own Kubernetes cluster metrics
Grafana
Serverless service used for securely monitoring container metrics at scale
Amazon Managed Server for Prometheus
Standard metric is delivered every
5 minutes
Detailed monitoring is delivered every
1 minute
Real-time monitoring service
Kinesis
