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See 4 moreLearn how to build cool dashboards that let you know at a glance when something is desperately on fire within your AWS architecture. This course is geared towards helping you understand the value of building your own dashboards within CloudWatch, to give you unparalleled visibility into your architecture and dedicated systems.
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Learning Objectives
- Create your own CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the items that are important to you
- Understand how CloudWatch dashboards can be shared across accounts
- Understand the cost structure of CloudWatch dashboards and the limitations of the service
Intended Audience
This lecture is perfect for someone who is looking to gain insight into how their infrastructure is performing through the use of easy to understand graphics, metrics, and tables.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should have a basic understanding of AWS. It would also be beneficial to have moderate experience using Amazon CloudWatch.
Hello, my name is Will Meadows! Welcome to this course on Building CloudWatch dashboards. This course is geared towards helping you understand the value in building your own dashboards within CloudWatch, to give you unparalleled visibility into your architecture and dedicated systems.
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This lecture is perfect for someone who is looking to gain insight on how their infrastructure is performing through the use of easy to understand graphics, metrics, and tables.
After watching this course you will be able to create your own CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the items that are important to you, understand how CloudWatch dashboards can be shared across accounts, and understand the cost structure of CloudWatch dashboards and the limitations of the service.
This lecture will cover high-level topics related to CloudWatch and many other AWS services. Having a basic understanding of the most common AWS services (such as EC2, S3, and RDS) as well as a moderate level of experience with CloudWatch is recommended.
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William Meadows is a passionately curious human currently living in the Bay Area in California. His career has included working with lasers, teaching teenagers how to code, and creating classes about cloud technology that are taught all over the world. His dedication to completing goals and helping others is what brings meaning to his life. In his free time, he enjoys reading Reddit, playing video games, and writing books.