AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

Course details

Enhance your development operations by learning how to work with monitoring tools from Amazon for services and applications. In this course, Lynn Langit explains how to use practical and applicable tools, techniques, and strategies for instrumenting your production AWS applications. She shows how to use product consoles, such as EC2, S3, and RDS. She also discusses and demonstrates using services—such as CloudTrail, CloudFormation, and the newly-announced X-Ray—for monitoring, gathering key metrics, and logging your application's output. Plus, she covers AWS scripting tools, such as the AWS CLI. This course maps to the Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging domain from the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam.

Learning objectives
Understanding approaches to monitoring
Matching business application priorities to monitoring approaches
Tools for monitoring and logging
Monitoring core AWS Services
Using CloudFormation templates
Monitoring S3, EC2, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis, and EMR
Using core AWS tools for metrics and logging
Using AWS services for advanced monitoring

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Exercise files
03 - What you should know and using cloud services

1. Monitoring Approaches

04 - Monitor approaches
05 - Outcome-based monitoring
06 - What to monitor - Metrics and services
07 - Tools for monitoring and logging
08 - Application monitoring

2. Monitoring Core AWS Services

09 - Setup for AWS monitoring
10 - Use CloudFormation templates
11 - Monitor S3
12 - Monitor EC2
13 - Monitor Lambda
14 - Monitor RDS
15 - Monitor Kinesis
16 - Monitor EMR

3. Core AWS Tools for Metrics and Logging

17 - Console tools for metrics
18 - Use CloudWatch for service monitoring
19 - Script tools for metrics
20 - Set up and use the AWS CLI for metrics
21 - Use the AWS CLI for metrics
22 - Code tools for metrics
23 - Setting up the AWS SDK for Node.js
24 - Use the AWS SDK by example for metrics

4. Using AWS Services for Advanced Monitoring

25 - AWS management tools for monitoring
26 - Use CloudFormation
27 - Use Service Catalog
28 - Use CloudTrail
29 - Use Config
30 - Use OpsWorks
31 - Use Trusted Advisor

5. Advanced and Third-Party Tools

32 - Use CloudFormation for applications
33 - Use a third-party service - Loggly
34 - Use Inspector
35 - Use X-Ray, new from AWS
36 - Use a third-party New Relic

6. Application Monitoring

37 - Compare monitoring tools
38 - Monitor applications via EC2 best practices
39 - Key considerations for monitoring

Conclusion

40 - Next steps

AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

Authors

Lynn Langit