Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)

Course details

Companies that move to the cloud can end up using hundreds or thousands of different services. CloudWatch allows organizations to manage all these services' performance and issues using logs, metrics, and alerts—all in one place. In this course, learn what CloudWatch has to offer, and how to use it to monitor your entire cloud ecosystem from one central location. Instructor Nertil Poci goes over how to set up alarms and notifications, gather and query logs, and create metrics for logs to better understand how your services are performing. Learn how to implement CloudWatch agent to collect VM logs, use Synthetics to monitor application load times, and use canaries to monitor specific pages and APIs. Finally, learn about ServiceLens, which helps you visualize numerous application components and their interactions.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Debugging and monitoring using AWS CloudWatch
02 - What should you know

1. Monitoring Services Using CloudWatch Metrics

03 - What is CloudWatch
04 - CloudWatch metrics
05 - Analyze CloudWatch metrics
06 - Using custom metrics
07 - Challenge - Push custom metrics to CloudWatch
08 - Solution - Push custom metrics to CloudWatch

2. Logging Using CloudWatch

09 - Logs on CloudWatch
10 - Query logs for insights
11 - Create log metrics
12 - Using the CloudWatch agent
13 - Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Windows
14 - Setting up the CloudWatch agent on Linux
15 - Challenge - Create custom CloudWatch metrics
16 - Solution - Create custom CloudWatch metrics

3. Notifying and Automating Using CloudWatch Alarms

17 - CloudWatch alarm capabilities
18 - Getting notified on metrics
19 - Autoscaling using alarms
20 - Challenge - Create CloudWatch alarms
21 - Solution - Create CloudWatch alarms

4. Interconnecting Services Using CloudWatch Events

22 - Events overview
23 - Responding to events
24 - Scheduling events
25 - Managing event bus permissions
26 - Challenge - Trigger Lambda functions using events
27 - Solution - Trigger Lambda functions using events

5. Monitoring the Web Using CloudWatch Synthetics

28 - Discovering CloudWatch Synthetics capabilities
29 - Monitoring application heartbeat using Synthetics canaries
30 - Monitoring API endpoints using Synthetics canaries
31 - Using alarms with Synthetics canaries to get notified about application issues
32 - Challenge - Monitor APIs and set alarms using CloudWatch canaries
33 - Solution - Monitor APIs and set alarms using CloudWatch canaries

6. Monitoring Application Health Using ServiceLens

34 - ServiceLens overview
35 - Launching an X-ray instrumented demo application
36 - Analyzing application health data
37 - Challenge - Set up an X-ray instrumented application and monitor it via ServiceLens
38 - Solution - Set up an X-ray instrumented application and monitor it via ServiceLens

Conclusion

39 - Next steps for AWS with CloudWatch