intermediate~2h

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS's native monitoring service — metrics, alarms, logs, and dashboards that give you visibility into what your infrastructure is actually doing.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain the difference between a metric, an alarm, and a log group
  • Configure an alarm that takes an automated action (e.g. triggering Auto Scaling)
  • Explain the difference between standard and detailed monitoring resolution
  • Write a basic CloudWatch Logs Insights query

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cloudtrail-configauto-scaling-load-balancingsystems-manager

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