Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch
Are you looking to use native AWS tools to monitor your AWS services and other servers? In this course, you will learn how to use the powerful CloudWatch monitoring toolset built right into the AWS platform for your own operations environment.
What you'll learn
CloudWatch is a powerful toolset built right into the AWS platform that allows you to easily monitor and automatically manage your AWS resources. In this course, Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch, you will learn how to use CloudWatch using both built-in metrics and custom metrics. First, you dive into how CloudWatch stores, retrieves, and organizes information. Next, you will learn about the integration of custom applications. Finally, you dive into combining built in and custom metrics. When you complete this course, you will know how to create useful dashboards for your team, as well as allow AWS to act on your behalf to make changes to your environment.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 1m
- CloudWatch Dashboard Introduction 1m
- Demo: CloudWatch Dashboard Overview 2m
- Custom CloudWatch Dashboard Overview 2m
- Demo: Custom CloudWatch Dashboards Overview 1m
- CloudWatch CLI Introduction 1m
- Demo: Installing and Configuring the AWSCLI Toolkit 2m
- Demo: Basic Interaction with CloudWatch Using the AWSCLI 2m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 1m
- CloudWatch API Basics 1m
- Demo: Create and View Alarm 0m
- Review AWSCLI Create Alarm Command 0m
- Demo: View Alarm Status with Simple Ruby Script 1m
- In Detail: Simple Ruby Alarm Script 1m
- CloudWatch Metric API Examples 1m
- Demo: View Metric Data with Simple Ruby Script 0m
- In Detail: Simple Ruby Metric Script 1m
- Demo: Using Ruby SDK in a Simple Sinatra Application 0m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 1m
- CloudWatch Logging Overview 1m
- CloudWatch Logging Agent Overview 1m
- Demo: Installing the CloudWatch Logging Agent 1m
- Demo: Configuring the CloudWatch Logging Agent 2m
- In Detail: CloudWatch Logging Configuration 2m
- Consuming Your CloudWatch Logs 1m
- Demo: Consuming CloudWatch Logs 2m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Ben Thomas is a DevOps Architect at large with over 10 years of industry experience specializing in AWS, VMware Infrastructure, and vCloud management. Ben was designated a vExpert by VMware in 2014 and 2015 and holds many industry certifications over several disciplines. Ben has experience working with a diverse set of organizations from government to large and small companies that allowed for a broad set of experiences in networking and systems analysis/design. He is a specialist in creating pr... more