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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