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

Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications

The previous chapter exposed to us the different ways of monitoring different AWS database technologies. We went from relational to non-relational databases, also called NoSQL databases. We then moved on to the cache database, and for that, we worked with Amazon ElastiCache, Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB, and saw the different graphs that are generated automatically and the important metrics in these graphs that we should pay close attention to.

This chapter is going to take us on a new ride. We will be introducing the concept of serverless and talk about monitoring on some select AWS serverless services. We shall clarify the difference between serverless and managed services, which can be confusing in a lot of cases, but we shall demystify that in this chapter. Then, we shall introduce endpoint monitoring, which we talked about in Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring. It is a type of reactive monitoring that responds after a failure...