What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring, covers the definition, history, and basic concepts of monitoring and the monitoring of systems, and an introduction to Amazon CloudWatch.

Chapter 2, CloudWatch Events and Alarms, explains how CloudWatch events can be configured for different scenarios and how to configure alarms.

Chapter 3, CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards, looks at the meaning of logs and metrics and how to create metrics from logs and a dashboard from metrics.

Chapter 4, Monitoring AWS Compute Services, introduces AWS compute services and how they integrate with Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring.

Chapter 5, Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch, explains concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and how Container Insights helps in monitoring containers.

Chapter 6, Performance Insights for Database Services, covers the concepts of different types of databases, AWS database services, and configuring monitoring on these services.

Chapter 7, Monitoring Serverless Applications, introduces the concept of the server and using Lambda Insights to get a clearer understanding of Lambda applications.

Chapter 8, Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services, explains basic big data concepts and AWS big data services and the monitoring of these services.

Chapter 9, Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch, introduces AWS storage services, the different types, and their functionalities, and how to monitor on them.

Chapter 10, Monitoring Network Services, introduces the fundamentals of computer networking, networking in AWS services, and their integration with CloudWatch.

Chapter 11, Best Practices and Conclusion, mentions some best practices with respect to monitoring and gives a summary for all the chapters.