Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch

2h 40mIntermediate2023-11-29

Authors

Nertil Poci

Freelance Software Architect

Course details

Companies that move to the cloud can end up using hundreds or thousands of different services. CloudWatch allows organizations to manage all these services' performance and issues using logs, metrics, and alerts—all in one place. In this course, freelance software architect Nertil Poci guides you through how CloudWatch works and how to use it to better understand your applications and clients, as well as how to automate the cloud in ways your company can use. Learn about the purpose and features of CloudWatch and its metrics. Explore metric math expressions and find out how to use the CloudWatch agent for logging. Discover proactive resource management and end-to-end application monitoring. Dive into ways you can automate application monitoring. Plus, go over using AWS RUM to optimize user experience and using AWS Internet Monitor to monitor internet performance.

Skills covered

Software AdministrationCloud AdministrationServer AdministrationAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesProjectNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud Computing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Monitoring cloud performance with AWS CloudWatch
02 - What should you know

1. Monitoring Services Using CloudWatch Metrics

03 - What is CloudWatch
04 - Preparing your environment
05 - Exploring CloudWatch metrics
06 - Working with custom metrics
07 - Collecting custom metrics
08 - Streaming metrics

2. Working with Metric Math Expressions

09 - Using metric math expressions
10 - Creating custom metric math expressions
11 - Adding metrics to dashboards

3. Logging Using CloudWatch

12 - Querying logs for Insights
13 - Creating log metrics
14 - Using the CloudWatch agent
15 - Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Linux
16 - Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows

4. Proactive Resource Management with CloudWatch Alarms

17 - Introducing CloudWatch alarms
18 - Creating CloudWatch alarms
19 - Configuring actions for CloudWatch alarms

5. End-to-End Application Monitoring with AWS X-Ray

20 - What is AWS X-Ray
21 - Setting up X-Ray in your application
22 - Tracing requests and analyzing traces in X-Ray
23 - Integrating X-Ray with other AWS services

6. Automating Application Monitoring with Synthetic Canaries

24 - What are CloudWatch canaries
25 - Creating a simple synthetic canary
26 - Monitoring APIs with synthetic canaries
27 - Using the canary recorder plugin

7. Optimizing User Experience with AWS RUM

28 - What is AWS RUM (real user monitoring)
29 - Enabling AWS RUM for your application
30 - Understanding AWS RUM data and metrics
31 - Setting up alerts for AWS RUM metrics

8. Monitoring Internet Performance with AWS Internet Monitor

32 - Introduction to AWS Internet Monitor
33 - Configuring AWS Internet Monitor for your environment
34 - Analyzing and visualizing AWS Internet Monitor data

Conclusion

35 - Next steps for AWS with CloudWatch