CloudWatch is an amazon service that is used to monitor your AWS resources. To be able to use CloudWatch effectively, you should have a resource in place, for instance, an Ec2 instance. In this demonstration, we will be creating a dashboard to monitor our Ec2 instance.
The steps involved are as follows
Log in to your AWS console
Use the search bar to search for CloudWatch and click to open the CloudWatch console.
- On the left pane of the console, click on the dashboard
- Click on create Dashboard to create a new Dashboard
- Name your dashboard and click on create Dashboard.
- Select a widget to add to your widget. (for the purposes of demonstration we will be selecting pie as our widget.
- Select the data source for your Widget. ( for demonstration purposes we will be using metrics)
- Then go ahead to select any of the metrics. ( I will be selecting Ec2 for this demonstration and go ahead to select Pre instance metrics)
- Select any instance as your Widget data source.
- Click on create Widget and save Dashboard after that.
In the Next writeup, I am going to explain the use alarms in cloudWatch and how to set them up.
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