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Performance and capacity monitoring

Performance and capacity monitoring

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Performance and capacity monitoring

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Realize that all cloud service providers, as part of platform as a service and or software as a service, will offer some type of free management and monitoring tool, a visibility tool for example. Now beyond that, they're going to have a marketplace of partners that will offer possibly much more robust visibility tools. So for example, at Amazon Web Services, they have a tool called CloudWatch. That's your main free tool that you can use as long as you have an account in good standing. In that account, you can have different alarms. And by the way, the alarms can trigger a function. For example, you can trigger Lambda functions or a workflow of Lambda functions. CloudWatch is also going to generate logs. You can create different dashboards. And in those dashboards, you can obviously set up your own types of metrics or meaningful indicators. So, as you see here, you can set alarms on any of your metrics. You can get notifications when your metric reaches or exceeds a certain threshold.…

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