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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An explanation of CloudWatch billing

With all the interesting features we have explained in this book, it is quite important to know that CloudWatch, just like every other AWS service, is not free of charge. Although, AWS has a free tier with the following features, which AWS promises will be free forever based on the free tier link (https://aws.amazon.com/free). The following screenshot shows what CloudWatch can give you for free every month:

Figure 11.1 – Amazon CloudWatch free tier package

From the screenshot, we can see that you can get 10 custom metrics and 10 alarms for free. Custom metrics are metrics that you create manually from the logs that are being sent to CloudWatch Logs. This means you can create 10 of those for free. Anything more than that you will be charged for. Now, these charges vary from metrics to dashboards, alarms, logs, events, contributor insights, to canaries. The prices for these components usually vary from region to region...