AWS CloudWatch LAB

 AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides insights into your AWS resources and applications. It helps you track, analyze, and gain insights from operational data.

Prerequisites

• An AWS account
• Basic understanding of AWS services

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Create Metrics

• Create Metrics: CloudWatch automatically generates metrics for many AWS resources. You can also create custom metrics to track specific metrics.

2. Create Alarms

• Create Alarms: Set up alarms to notify you when metrics exceed or fall below specified thresholds.

CloudWatch Create Alarm screen

3. View Metrics and Alarms

• View Metrics: Use the CloudWatch console to view metrics in graphs and charts.

CloudWatch Metrics screen

• View Alarms: View the status of your alarms and investigate any triggered alarms.
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CloudWatch Alarms screen

4. Use CloudWatch Logs

• Use CloudWatch Logs: Collect and analyze log data from your AWS resources and applications.
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CloudWatch Logs screen

5. Use CloudWatch Insights

• Use CloudWatch Insights: Query and analyze log data using SQL-like syntax.
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CloudWatch Insights screen

6. Use CloudWatch Synthetics

• Use CloudWatch Synthetics: Create synthetic transactions to monitor the performance of your applications from the end-user perspective.
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CloudWatch Synthetics screen

Additional Considerations

• Custom Metrics: Create custom metrics to track specific metrics that are not automatically generated by CloudWatch.
• Data Retention: Configure data retention policies for your metrics and logs.
• Alarms: Set up alarms to proactively monitor your resources and applications.
• Integration: Integrate CloudWatch with other AWS services like CloudTrail and Config for comprehensive monitoring and governance.

 is a monitoring and observability service that provides insights into your AWS resources and applications. It helps you track, analyze, and gain insights from operational data.

Prerequisites

• An AWS account
• Basic understanding of AWS services

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Create Metrics

• Create Metrics: CloudWatch automatically generates metrics for many AWS resources. You can also create custom metrics to track specific metrics.

2. Create Alarms

• Create Alarms: Set up alarms to notify you when metrics exceed or fall below specified thresholds.

CloudWatch Create Alarm screen

3. View Metrics and Alarms

• View Metrics: Use the CloudWatch console to view metrics in graphs and charts.

CloudWatch Metrics screen

• View Alarms: View the status of your alarms and investigate any triggered alarms.

CloudWatch Alarms screen

4. Use CloudWatch Logs

• Use CloudWatch Logs: Collect and analyze log data from your AWS resources and applications.

CloudWatch Logs screen

5. Use CloudWatch Insights

• Use CloudWatch Insights: Query and analyze log data using SQL-like syntax.

CloudWatch Insights screen

6. Use CloudWatch Synthetics

• Use CloudWatch Synthetics: Create synthetic transactions to monitor the performance of your applications from the end-user perspective.

CloudWatch Synthetics screen

Additional Considerations

• Custom Metrics: Create custom metrics to track specific metrics that are not automatically generated by CloudWatch.
• Data Retention: Configure data retention policies for your metrics and logs.
• Alarms: Set up alarms to proactively monitor your resources and applications.
• Integration: Integrate CloudWatch with other AWS services like CloudTrail and Config for comprehensive monitoring and governance.