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CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances

CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances

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- [Instructor] As you set up and deploy your EC2 instances to serve global customers, you need to monitor the health of these instances when they perform out of the ordinary. Maybe your instance is consistently hitting 90% CPU usage, causing unexpected outages, or perhaps the instance is hitting its maximum memory allocation. The bottom line is that you need to understand what available metrics can help you determine the health of your instances. In this lecture, we will discuss how Amazon CloudWatch metrics works with EC2 instances. To start, let's talk about metrics First, what is a metric? Think of metrics simply as data attached to your resource that describes the performance of your system. Say you have a physical server up and running. To describe a performance of that server, you'll need to know its CPU usage, network usage, disk usage and more. This is also true if you want to describe the performance of your EC2 instances on AWS. AWS provides metrics like CPU, network, disk…

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