Introduction to CloudWatch
Beginner
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Lab Overview
In this Lab, you will explore CloudWatch, a monitoring service provided by AWS. CloudWatch makes it possible to monitor nearly anything inside or outside AWS. Common usage is to monitor EC2 instances for CPU and memory utilization, ephemeral or EBS volume disk usage and throughput, as well as network statistics. CloudWatch also enables you to configure alarms, so that when thresholds are violated for specific metrics a notification and/or action is automatically triggered.
Prerequisites
Although this is a beginner level Lab, you should be familiar with:
- Using the AWS Console
- EC2 basics
- Conceptual understanding of the type of metrics typically monitored (such as CPU, storage, and network resources)
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this Lab, you will be able to:
- Explain key CloudWatch concepts and default EC2 metrics
- Create and test an alarm
- Add actions to an alarm
- Install monitoring tools as EC2 User Data to send custom metrics to CloudWatch
- Navigate about in CloudWatch and explore many other possibilities for monitoring AWS resources
Lab Environment
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After completing the Lab instructions, the environment should look similar to:
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Logging in to the Amazon Web Services Console
Your first step to start the Lab experience
Explore CloudWatch
Learn key concepts and explore the CloudWatch console
Monitoring EC2 Instances
Monitor EC2 instances and EBS volumes using CloudWatch defaults
Install the EC2 Monitoring Scripts
Install AWS provided Monitoring Scripts to enhance the monitoring capabilities of EC2 instances
Create your first CloudWatch alarm
Learn two ways to create an Alarm from the CloudWatch console
Create an Alarm using the EC2 console
Create an Alarm from the EC2 Console and add actions
Sharing CloudWatch Metrics with others
Share interesting metrics with other team members