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

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing CloudWatch alarms

CloudWatch alarms are a managed alert and notification service used to send notifications when an anomaly is detected in an infrastructure setup. Alarms are configured in relation to specific metrics. What an alarm does is it checks changes in the metric it is attached to based on specific conditions that have been given to it. When those conditions have been met, the alarm is triggered. An alarm can be configured to consistently check and ensure that the CPU usage of an EC2 instance does not exceed 80%. If it does for any reason, the alarm will be triggered and will push those state changes to Amazon SNS.

CloudWatch alarms in conjunction with Amazon SNS make alarms and notifications much easier to manage by reducing the operational expression of managing different alert and notification systems for your monitoring infrastructure, thereby aggregating metrics, alarms, and notifications as a complete set of solutions for alerting when the state of a...