MultiCloud Classroom notes 21/Nov/2024

Cloud Watch Metrics

• In Cloud watch for every service aws collects some metrics by default
• Metric collection frequency
  • Standard Metrics:
    • They are collected at 1 minute interval
    • it costs 0.1 $ per month
  • High Resolution Metrics
    • They are collected at 1 second interval
    • it costs 0.3 $ per month
• To view all the available metrics Refer Here and Refer Here for services
• AWS uses namespace for grouping the metrics collected by service
• AWS supports installing cloudwatch agents to collect
  • more metrics
  • change resolution
  • get logs
  • get traces
• Cloudwatch agents can be installed on
  • ec2 instances
  • other virtual machines/physical machines
  • We can monitor standard servers
    • nginx
    • apache
    • docker
    • mysql
    • postgres
• Cloudwatch also supports getting custom metrics with the help of
  • aws cli
  • Cloudwatch sdk

Azure Monitoring

• Azure by default will collect metrics of the resources based on service
• To get additional metrics, agents can be used
• To get application specific metrics adopt sdk