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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

You're reading from   Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Effectively optimize resource allocation, detect anomalies, and set automated actions on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566057
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

Logging operations in Amazon DynamoDB

We have already established that DynamoDB is a serverless NoSQL database engine. This service is proprietary to AWS, although you can get it as a Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/dynamodb-local.

Important note

Docker is a containerization tool used to package applications, services, and operating systems to make deploying and running the same application in different operating systems much easier and faster.

The architecture of NoSQL databases is quite different from the relational database management system. For DynamoDB, AWS has abstracted a lot of the operational things that we should be worried about, so our focus on the metrics will be more on the database layer than the infrastructure running the database. In DynamoDB, one of the most critical metrics to watch out for is the database's read and write capacities. These determine the behavior and the availability of your DynamoDB tables. They are measured...

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