Summary
In this chapter, you looked at AWS’s CloudWatch service and its multiple functionalities. You saw how it can gather logs for many of the other services running in AWS and store them for the specified period. You also saw how the CloudWatch service provides monitoring and metrics for the different services running in AWS. You looked at both predefined metrics and custom ones.
With the metric capabilities of CloudWatch, you can track your resources and create alarms and dashboards to monitor and keep track of services within your purview.
The chapter concluded with a discussion of Amazon EventBridge, the event bus service. You saw how EventBridge can take events from multiple sources, both internal to AWS and external, and use rules to process the events and then send the events to one or more specified targets for proper processing. You also learned how EventBridge can help you build a decoupled EDA in AWS.
In Chapter 9, Parsing Logs and Events with AWS Native...
