Amazon CloudWatch

AWS monitoring service for Applications.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides real-time insights into the performance and health of your AWS resources and applications. It allows you to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms to trigger automated actions.

Key Features:

• Metrics: CloudWatch collects and stores data in the form of metrics, which are time-ordered sets of data points. These metrics can be related to various AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, and more.
• Dashboards: You can create custom dashboards to visualize metrics and gain a holistic view of your application’s performance.
• Alarms: CloudWatch Alarms enable you to monitor metrics and trigger automated actions (e.g., sending notifications or scaling resources) based on predefined thresholds.
• Logs: CloudWatch Logs allow you to collect, store, and analyze log data from various AWS resources. You can set up log streams and define custom log metrics.
• Events: CloudWatch Events enable you to respond to changes in your AWS environment by triggering automated actions using event-driven rules.

Use Cases:

• Monitoring resource utilization and performance.
• Setting up automated responses to resource changes.
• Creating custom dashboards to visualize data.
• Collecting and analyzing logs for troubleshooting and compliance.