CloudWatch Dashboards

• You should be Create Dashboard of different Graphs/metrics for the resources that you are monitoring

CloudWatch Logs

• A Centralized logs that can be stored from various services, monitored and queried

• Terms:

  • Log Event: Record of the log from some application/resource which is being monitored. Two Properties are to be present
    1. timestamp
    2. Messages with UTF-8 Encoding
  • Log Stream: Sequence of log events from same source
  • Log Groups:
    • Groups of log streams for one purpose (Could be one application or one business unit)

• Logs can be pushed from applications using Cloudwatch Logs api Refer here

• Cloudwatch logs are used by the service Cloud Trail (Audit Trail)

• Create a Cloudwatch log group

• Create a VPC Flow log and send the logs to cloudwatch log group

• If you are aware of Queries Refer Here to build Cloud watch query.

• Logs and Metrics can be pushed to cloud watch using cloudwatch agents Refer Here

• Download the cloudwatch agent Refer HEre

• Configure and Install

• If your organization is Using Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch can be used as data source Refer Here

Exercise:

• Create Alarms to send notifications via email to
  • Report More DB Connects
  • Report Less Storage Space
  • Report Write Latency