You're reading from Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Effectively optimize resource allocation, detect anomalies, and set automated actions on AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566057

Length 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Amazon CloudWatch

Concepts

Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Ewere Diagboya

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: CloudWatch Events and Alarms

4. Chapter 3: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards

5. Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch

6. Chapter 4: Monitoring AWS Compute Services

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch

8. Chapter 6: Performance Insights for Database Services

9. Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications

10. Chapter 8: Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services

11. Chapter 9: Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch

12. Chapter 10: Monitoring Network Services

13. Chapter 11: Best Practices and Conclusion

14. Assessments

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Understanding the components of a CloudWatch event

For an Amazon CloudWatch event to function, it is made up of different moving parts to achieve a goal successfully. Each of these components is inter-connected and forms the life cycle of a CloudWatch Events operation. If any of these components is missing for any reason, then the CloudWatch Events life cycle will not be complete. Due to the similarities that exist between CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge, we will be interpolating both services by describing the different components of CloudWatch Events. In scenarios where the features are unique to Amazon EventBridge, they will be uniquely spelled out. For an event to work completely, these are the three major components, which we will explore in the next sections.

Input trigger

This is the input data, service, or event that triggers the event to start. It can also be called the input signal of the CloudWatch Events life cycle. This is what starts the process or the...