Use Cases for CloudWatch
- CloudWatch can be used to monitor the performance of AWS resources, applications, and infrastructure components in real-time
- CloudWatch allows users to set up alarms that trigger notifications or automated actions in response to changes in the state of their resources.
- CloudWatch can be used to store, search, and analyze log data from various AWS services, applications, and infrastructure components.
- CloudWatch can be used to monitor the performance of EC2 instances, RDS databases, and other resources, which can then be used to trigger automatic scaling events.
Introduction to Amazon Cloudwatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a service used for monitoring and observing resources in real-time, built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides users with data and actionable insights to monitor their respective applications, stimulate system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing its users with an aggregated view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS. The CloudWatch can also be used to detect anomalous behavior in the environments, set warnings and alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, and troubleshoot issues.
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