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Amazon CloudWatch & EventBridge

Amazon CloudWatch & EventBridge - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon CloudWatch & EventBridge

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In this lesson, I'll be covering Amazon CloudWatch and EventBridge. So CloudWatch is principally a performance monitoring service, and CloudWatch metrics are one of the core features. Services will send time-ordered data points to Amazon CloudWatch. CloudWatch alarms are a way that you can monitor those metrics and initiate actions such as notifications or maybe you want to trigger some kind of change in the resource. So you can look at the performance of your systems and then set an alarm to let you know if something changes. For instance, a metric is showing that the CPU is highly utilized on a system. CloudWatch Logs is a centralized collection of system and application logs. And we'll see some of the options for what you can collect a bit later on in this lesson. We then have CloudWatch Events. With CloudWatch Events, your systems are streaming system events to CloudWatch, and you can then trigger actions based on state changes, so you're monitoring for state changes. Now…

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