You're reading from Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789345018

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Deepak Vohra

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate FREE CHAPTER

2. Networking

3. Using CloudWatch Logs

4. Using Auto Scaling

5. Using IAM

6. Using an Application Load Balancer

7. Using Amazon ECS CLI

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Exploring CloudWatch metrics and Logs

In this section, we shall explore the CloudWatch metrics and logs generated by the ECS service and find log events for the CloudWatch alarm threshold being exceeded:

Open the CloudWatch console as shown here. The alarm summary for the AutoScaleCPUUtilization gets displayed in a graph.
Click on Browse Metrics to browse metrics:

Select Alarms in the margin. The AutoScaleBasedOnCPUUtilization alarm used as a threshold for auto scaling gets listed, as shown in the following screenshot. The alarm state is ALARM when the alarm threshold is exceeded.

The AutoScaleBasedOnCPUUtilization alarm details and graph get displayed. The two spikes in CPU utilization in the graph indicate that the alarm threshold has been exceeded, which applies the auto scaling to add one task each time the alarm threshold is exceeded. The first spike in the...

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Authors (1)

Deepak Vohra

Deepak Vohra is consultant and principle a member of the NuBean software company. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) and has worked in the fields of XML, Java programming, and J2EE for over 10 years. He is the coauthor of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology. Deepak is the author of several Packt Publishing books, including Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Java EE Development with Eclipse. Deepak is also a Docker Mentor and has published four other Docker-related books.

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