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Amazon CloudWatch overview

Amazon CloudWatch overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon CloudWatch overview

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- [Narrator] In this section, we'll be talking about how you can monitor the health of your application and resources using Amazon CloudWatch. Modern applications, especially ones that implement microservices architectures, generate a large volume of data on metrics, logs and events. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics about your resources to improve system-wide visibility, application performance, and the overall operational health of your infrastructure, which will keep your applications running smoothly. Let's take a look at this diagram to describe how things work in CloudWatch. This diagram basically describes the whole monitoring cycle in Amazon CloudWatch. First, Amazon CloudWatch is capable of collecting operational data in the form of logs, metrics and events from your AWS resources, including your on-premises servers. This allows you to store relevant information that can be used to improve…

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