Table of Contents
- 1 Can CloudWatch monitor application?
- 2 What are the benefits of Amazon CloudWatch?
- 3 What do you monitor on an application?
- 4 Will you recommend CloudWatch as an added feature to your cloud deployment?
- 5 What are monitoring best practices?
- 6 What AWS events are supported by CloudWatch events?
- 7 How do I create a new rule in AWS CloudWatch?
Can CloudWatch monitor application?
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor application endpoints more easily. You are able to continually verify your customer experience, even when you don’t have any customer traffic on your applications. This enables you to discover issues before your customers do.
What types of monitoring can Amazon CloudWatch be used for?
Amazon CloudWatch can monitor AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon RDS DB instances, as well as custom metrics generated by your applications and services, and any log files your applications generate.
What are the benefits of Amazon CloudWatch?
Amazon CloudWatch allows you to access all your data from a single platform. It is natively integrated with more than 70+ AWS services. Amazon CloudWatch Logs let you monitor, process, store, and access log files from Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, Lambda functions, VPC flow logs, or other sources.
What is Amazon CloudWatch detailed monitoring?
You can monitor your instances using Amazon CloudWatch, which collects and processes raw data from Amazon EC2 into readable, near real-time metrics. To send metric data for your instance to CloudWatch in 1-minute periods, you can enable detailed monitoring on the instance.
What do you monitor on an application?
Monitoring Applications in the Cloud
- Identify from the end-user perspective how well cloud service providers deliver performance across different geographies.
- Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks in the service delivery chain.
- Independently validate vendors SLA claims with real data.
How do I monitor application logs in CloudWatch?
Validating Custom Logs in Cloudwatch Dashboard
- Go to Logs –> Log Groups and you will see the log group you mentioned in the agent configuration.
- Select the log group and you should see your instance identified you mentioned in the config.
- If you click the instance identifier, it shows all the logs.
Will you recommend CloudWatch as an added feature to your cloud deployment?
Likelihood to Recommend CloudWatch is highly recommended for monitoring EC2 services. It provides easy setup, straight forward alarm creation, easy to read monitoring. It is great for scalability/cost. We know when to increase an EC2 instance or when it can be scaled down.
How do I use CloudWatch monitoring?
CloudWatch alarms are created from the CloudWatch console.
- Click on Create Alarm.
- Click on Select Metric and type the name of the metric into the search box.
- Choose the metric for the instance you’re going to monitor (under EC2 > Per-Instance Metrics) and look at a 1 week graph to determine what your baselines are.
What are monitoring best practices?
Four System Monitoring Best Practices
- Identify and Monitor the Problem Areas. If you can’t identify all problem areas, identify as many as possible.
- Focus on Processes. Good monitoring relies on good processes.
- Set the Monitoring in Context.
- Prepare for Specific Monitoring Situations.
How do you monitor application performance?
In short, end-to-end application performance monitoring works by:
- Observing whether your apps are behaving normally.
- If not, alerting to and collecting data on the source of the problem (be it the app, app dependencies, or supporting infrastructure)
- Analyzing the data in the context of the impact on the business.
What AWS events are supported by CloudWatch events?
The AWS-provided events that CloudWatch Events supports include: Amazon EC2 instance state-change events. Auto Scaling lifecycle events, and instance launch and terminate notifications. Scheduled events. AWS API call and console sign-in events reported by AWS CloudTrail.
How do I monitor codedeploy deployments with CloudWatch?
You can monitor CodeDeploy deployments using the following CloudWatch tools: Amazon CloudWatch Events, CloudWatch alarms, and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Reviewing the logs created by the CodeDeploy agent and deployments can help you troubleshoot the causes of deployment failures.
How do I create a new rule in AWS CloudWatch?
If you prefer to use the AWS Management Console, you can create the first rule with the following steps: Go to the Amazon CloudWatch console. Click Create Rule, and then click Show advanced options. Click Edit the JSON version of the pattern.
How do I create a lambda function in AWS CloudWatch?
Go to the Amazon CloudWatch console. Click Create Rule, and then click Show advanced options. Click Edit the JSON version of the pattern. Paste the contents of the YellowPattern.json file in the text box. Click Add target under the Targets section. Select the Lambda function SampleAppDebugger from the list. Click Configure details.