Amazon cloudWatch is a service that lets you have insight into the health and operational performance of your instances or applications. This helps in monitoring your instances and making sure they are ready for business.
CloudWatch gives you the opportunity to set up automated responses which are triggered when a condition is met. The function of this service presents an opportunity for users to minimize incidents, errors, or outages of the infrastructure or instances.
This service is mostly used by personnel in charge of operations and site engineers.
Amazon cloudWatch can be used for the following;
Collect and store logs.
Amazon cloudWatch allows you to store logs from vended logs, logs published from AWS resources, and Amazon CloudTrail.
Collect and aggregate container metrics.
Aws CloudWatch collects and aggregates metrics from compute performance such as CPU, memory, network, and disk information.
Monitor operational view with dashboards.
The dashboard feature of Amazon CloudWatch allows you to visualize your cloud resources and create a reusable graph to understand their performance.
Providing Application Insights:
This feature provides you with the possibility of setting up automated observation of applications to have an idea of their performance.
To learn more about the features of the Amazon cloudWatch, visit Amazon CloudWatch Product Features - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Below are some of the graphics highlighting how the features involved in creating CloudWatch.
This graphics indicate creating a dashboard in cloudWatch
This graphic shows the addition of widget to the dashboard
This graphic shows the final dashboard after adding the
widgets and source points for the data.
In the next write up I will be demonstrating how to create a dashboard and alarm in cloudWatch.
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