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Aadit Unni
Aadit Unni

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Create a CloudWatch Alarm

[5/100] #100DaysOfCloud Today, I created a CloudWatch Alarm for an EC2 instance to send a notification when the Alarm triggers an Alert state.

Amazon CloudWatch :

  • Amazon CloudWatch collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards to streamline your infrastructure and application maintenance.

Use cases :

  • Monitor application performance

    • Visualize performance data, create alarms, and correlate data to understand and resolve the root cause of performance issues in your AWS resources.
  • Perform root cause analysis

    • Analyze metrics, logs, logs analytics, and user requests to speed up debugging and reduce overall mean time to resolution.
  • Optimize resources proactively

    • Automate resource planning and lower costs by setting actions to occur when thresholds are met based on your specifications or machine learning models.
  • Test website impacts

    • Find out exactly when your website is impacted and for how long by viewing screenshots, logs, and web requests at any point in time.

You can try to create a CloudWatch Alarm yourself by following the steps from the link below :
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