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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

by Mike Pfeiffer

This is the second in a series of four courses that will prepare you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Certification. You'll learn about monitoring, custom metrics, logging files and more, all within CloudWatch.

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What you'll learn

Learn more about CloudWatch and prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Certification by watching the second course in this series of four courses. In this course, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging, you'll cover the domain objectives for the monitoring, metrics, and logging portion of the exam. You'll explore how to get started in CloudWatch and begin monitoring with its custom metrics. You'll learn how to create alarms, monitor API calls and log files, and finally you'll learn how to work with CloudWatch events. By the end of this course, you'll be very familiar with CloudWatch and its functions, and you'll also be more prepared to earn your certification.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Course Introduction
3mins
Getting Started with CloudWatch
32mins
Monitoring with Custom CloudWatch Metrics
30mins
Creating CloudWatch Alarms
32mins
Monitoring API Calls with CloudTrail
23mins
Monitoring Log Files with CloudWatch
23mins
Working with CloudWatch Events
18mins

About the author

Mike Pfeiffer

Mike Pfeiffer is a twenty year IT industry veteran, published author, and international conference speaker. He's a former architect for Amazon Web Services and engineer for Microsoft. Today Pfeiffer serves as Chief Technologist at CloudSkills.io.

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